MEDICAL REGISTRATION

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1934, Page 7

MEDICAL REGISTRATION

ENTRY OF GERMAN DOCTORS ONE ARRIVED IN THE DOMINION. CONSIDERABLE APPREHENSION. RESTRICTIONS UPON STUDENTS. By Telegraph-Press Association. Wellington, Last Night.. Considerable apprehension exists in New Zealand medical circles as to the possible influx of doctors from Europe following the ban placed upon Jews in Germany by the Nazis, and the prospect is regarded as being so serious that it is understood it has been suggested to the Government that they should.be prohibited from entering the Dominion. Jewish doctors have left Germany m large numbers and many have sought refuge in Britain, where they are in process of qualifying for registration. So far but one has arrive'd in New Zealand, and his name has not yet been placed on the medical register. Inquiries from six others, however, have already been received by the Medical Council of Now Zoalarid, th® body, appointed by Act of Parliament to determine the eligibility of candidates for medical registration. The position, is that once German doctors have, qualified for registration in Britain they ipso facto become eligible for registration in New Zealand, subject to satisfactory character qualifications. The’president of the Wellington branch of the British Medical Association,- Dr. D. Macdonald Wilson, said to-day that apprehension was. principally felt because of the fact that some restriction at present was being placed on the numbers of students, entering the medical course at the University of Otago, and it seemed unfair in view pf this to. permit sn influx of German doctors, exiled because of Nazi law. Asked if he considered whether the fact of men coming to New Zealand who had beefi trained ,in the best German schools of medicine would be . generally to the public benefit, Dr. Wilson said that would depend on who the men were. That question would. arise when they tried to get.in. . . The secretary of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association, Dr. S. W. Hogg, said the question had been considered by his association but as yet no definite action had been decided upon. As far as the actual barring of entry to New Zealand was concerned, that lay’with the immigration authorities.