Jewish doctors in Hungary have been forbidden to practice in hospitals and Jews have been barred from selling any tobacco products, or from being employed as waiters in restaurants and hotels, or as desk clerks in hotels, in a series of orders issued by the Hungarian authorities in Budapest, it was reported in the Donau Zeitung reaching here today.
This newspaper, which is the chief Nazi organ for the Balkans, also discloses that 88 Jewish restaurants have already been “Aryanized” in the Hungarian capital. Commenting on the restrictions on Jewish physicians, it points out that barring Jewish doctors from hospitals virtually excludes them from the profession since it deprives them of practical experience.
Information released by the Hungarian Ministry of Interior and broadcast today over the Budapest radio reveals that a typhus epidemic is raging in Sub-Carpathia, the part of Czechoslovakia annexed by Hungary. The Jewish townships there, to which many Jews from other parts of Hungary have been deported, are particularly affected. The death rate among the Jews is described as “tremendous” due to the lack of medical supplies and food.
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