6 APRIL 1944, Page 14

WOMEN MEDICAL STUDENTS

SIR,—As a medical woman, I am interested in your correspondent's reference in a recent Spectator to the need for the London medical schools to open their doors to women students. It is curious that the reason these hospitals which after the last war admitted women students, and later withdrew this concession, was primarily one of sport. The hospitals which had women students had fewer men from whom to select teams, and consequently felt handicapped in matches against hospitals which only had male students. A solution would be for all the hospitals to admit the same number of women students.—Yours