ALIEN DOCTORS

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1937, Page 12

ALIEN DOCTORS

EMBARGO IN BRITAIN.

LONDON, May 9

The Home Office has decided to enforce rigorously the regulations regarding the admission of foreigners into this country, especially in regard to doctors, dentists, research workers, and students in these professions. In future, although . doctors and dentists, lor example, may obtain British degrees and professional qualifications, they will not. with very lew exceptions, be allowed to settle here.

This decision has been made because of the growth in the influx of ioreign professional men and the consequent detriment to British practitioners and students. Considerable numbers of foreigners, particularly Germans, because of political troubles in their own countries, have taken advantage of the facilities to secure British qualifications and have set up in practice here.

No difference, of course, wjll be made in the purely educational side. Facilities to study here will still be available, as corresponding facilities are to British students abroad, but foreign students taking courses at universities or colleges will be required to return to their own countries on completing their studies. Doctors ami dentists applying for permission to remain long enough for short courses of studies will be allowed to do so. but they have to sign an undertaking to return home at the end of those studios.

A wider latitude is observed in regard to qualified research chemists and those engaged in specialist medical research. A number of these have been absorbed by the larger industrial laboratories and research institutions, and their work has proved of value both to industry and science.