Medical malice

In her September 9), Monica Porter relates how following the opposition from the BMA, the Home Office severely reduced immigration of refugee Jewish doctors.

She states: “There might have been some antisemitism involved”.

I remember that, while on National Service, in the late 1940s, at RAF Hospital, Fayid, Egypt, in the files was a handwritten letter, sent during the War, from an eminent London teaching hospital consultant. This man was a former teacher of mine and his letter was addressed to his colleague — the senior ophthalmic specialist. RAF Middle East.

It read: “About jobs after the war, we do not want any Yids here, however well-qualified they may be”. J. S. Conway