Medical Chiefs

updated April 10, 2014.

Heads of the Government Medical / Health Department: A Succession List

1841-1897 Colonial Surgeon 皇家醫生

		Henry Holgate (acting[1] August 1841)
		Charles A. Winchester (Assistant Surgeon[1] 1842
Alexander Anderson	1842/10/1–1844
Francis Dill	1844-1846/10	died in office
Peter F. H. Young	1846/10-1847
William Morrison	1847-1853	died in office
James Carroll Dempster	1854/5/1-1857	reassigned to India; Edward Menzies (acting, vice Dempster 1857/11/16-1858)
William Aurelius Harland	1858/6/14–1858	died in office; Thomas Andrews Chaldecott (acting, 1858/9/23-1859)
John Ivor Murray 未士孖利	1859/4/12–1873	[s.n.] Ainslie (acting, aol, 1860/12/15–1861/5/8; [s.n.] O'Brien (acting, aol, 1867/2/6- ); George Dods (acting, aol, 1871/1/19- )
Robert W. McCoy	1873/1/14 –1873	died in office; George Dods (acting, 1873/4/10–1873/11/3)
Philip Bernard Chenery Ayres	1873/11/4–1897	Charles John Wharry (acting, aol, 1875/6/25- ); John Mitford Atkinson (acting, aol, 1895- ; 1897/4/30- ) John Christoper Thomson (Assistant Colonial Surgeon 1897)

1897-1928 Principal Civil Medical Officer 首席民事醫務官

John Mitford Atkinson	1897/7/1-1912	James Alfred Lowson (acting, aol, 1898/8/5- ; 1900/3/29- ); John Bell (acting, aol, 1898/9/21- ; sick leave, 1900/8/3- ; aol, 1909/5/4- ; aol, 1910/3/1; aol, 1912/3/21- ); Francis William Clark (acting, 1905/3/16- )
John Taylor Connell Johnson	1913/1/15-1923	Harold Macfarlane (acting, aol, 1919/1/24); Charles William McKenny (acting, aol, 1919/2/8- ;  aol, 1923/7/7- )
Joseph Bartlett Addison	1924/3/1- 1928/4/9	William Brownlow Ashe Moore (acting, aol, 1925/12/26- ; aol, 1926/12/29- ; 1928/1/6- ); James Thornton Smalley (acting, 1927/11/8)

1928-1936 Director of Medical and Sanitary Services 醫務衛生總監

		William Brownlow Ashe Moore (acting[1] 1928/4/10- ) James Thornton Smalley (Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary Services 1928/4/10- )
Arthur Robartes Wellington	1929/2/4-1936	William Brownlow Ashe Moore (Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary Services 1929/2/1- ) William Brownlow Ashe Moore (acting, 1931/4/11-4/22; 1933/3/22-4/11; 1934/9/26-11/2; 1935/1/29-10/25; 1936/1/11-2/3) Douglas James Valentine (acting Deputy Director, 1931/4/22-1932/1/1; 1932/3/15-1933/1/12; 1933/3/23-4/11; 1935/1/29-10/25; 1935/11/25- ; 1935/12/21- ; 1936/1/11-2/3; 1936/2/22- ; acting Director 1931/10/29-1932/1/1)

1936-1941 Director of Medical Services 醫務總監

Arthur Robartes Wellington	1936-1938	Douglas James Valentine (Deputy Director 1936/10/21- ) Douglas James Valentine (acting, 1937/6/11-7/21; 1937/8/17- ) James Thornton Smalley (acting Deputy Director 1937/6/11-7/21; 1937/8/17- ; acting Director 1937/7/21-8/17)
Percy Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke 司徒永覺	1938/1/28-1941	Douglas James Valentine (Deputy Director 1937/3/4- acting 1938/3/19-1938/12/8) James Thornton Smalley (acting Deputy Director 1938/3/19-11/21; 1938/21/3- ; acting Director 1938/11/21-12/3)

[1] No original holder of office.

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