Surrendering to Endek demands, Wilno University authorities today quietly introduced virtual “ghetto” regulations for Jewish students. Under orders, professors began individually to assign special places in classrooms to Jewish students. Jewish medical students are being permitted use of laboratories only on special days.
No official announcement of the new regulations had been made, presumably to avoid the charge that a student “ghetto” was being introduced. Refusal to occupy seats individually assigned them would mean a year’s suspension for the Jewish students if not permanent expulsion.
A “ghetto” for Jewish cab drivers was demanded in a resolution adopted at a meeting of Polish cab men. The Mayor of Wilno will be asked to assign special stations to the Jewish cabbies and to force them to wear yellow license tags.
An ordinance was enacted forbidding treatment of non-Jewish patients at Jewish hospitals but permitting non-Jewish hospitals to treat Jewish patients. Simultaneously three Jewish staff physicians were dismissed by the St. Jacobs Hospital.
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