An inquiry into the number of Jewish physicians who have come to England from Germany has been asked by Dr. A. Welply, general secretary of the Medical Practitioners Union, in view of the claim “that they are competing strongly against our own doctors,” the Evening Express reports.
The British Medical Association’s attitude, the paper says, it has been that the problem is not acute enough to warrant courts and association estimates that about 200 foreign doctors in England.
Dr. Welply, whose organization claims a merciful was that the situation was “really serious,” adding, “My council has asked the Home Office for information concerning the number admitted since 1933. Most of these arrivals are German-Jewish doctors.
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