According to a report of the Berlin Medical Chamber, of which Dr. Loellke is president, the Medical Chamber here is made up of 6,558 members, of whom 3,135 are “Aryan” and 3,423 “non-Aryan.” The latter group includes a small number who were married to Jewesses or whose race is doubtful.
The number of members on February 14, 1933, was 6,203, a reduction of 355. Among these, 3,829 were “Aryans,” and 2,914 “non-Aryans,” an increase of 154 “Aryans” and a decrease of 509 “non-Aryans.”
The Berlin Sick Funds, Dr. Loelike further reports, employed in October, 1933, 3,481 Sick Fund doctors, 1,404 being “Aryans” and 2,077 “non-Aryans.”
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