Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Thomson, John Christopher (1889-1909)

updated August 19, 2013

A Devoted Teacher.

b. June 5, 1863, Lockerbie, Scotland. MA 1884, MB, CM August 1, 1888, MD 1892 (Edin.); CDTC 1904; DPH (Edin.) & (Glas.) 1904. London Missionary Society, medical missionary. Registered to practice in Hong Kong on January 18, 1889 through 1897. London Missionary Society Clinic, address: Po Yee Street, Sai Ying Pun 西營盤普義街 (working with William Young 楊威廉). Superintendent, Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals 1889. Resigned from London Missionary Society 1896. Hong Kong Government, Assistant Colonial Surgeon 1897; Medical Officer and Medical Officer of Health to the Kowloon extension 1898. Surgeon, Tung Wah Hospital 1909. HKCMC: Secretary 1891-94; Treasury and Secretary 1895-1909; Director of Studies 1895-1902; lecturer in Chemistry 1896-97, Chemistry and Physics 1898-1901, Clinical Medicine 1909, Clinical Surgery 1892, Diseases of Tropical Climates 1901-09, Fever 1908, Materia Medica and Therapeutics 1892-96, Physiology 1895-96, Surgery 1896-97. JP (official) 1898. President, HKBMA 1899. Left Hong Kong December 28, 1909 due to ill-health. Publication: Reports on Malaria and on Hong Kong Mosquitoes, Government Gazette. Club: Hong Kong Club.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 19, 1889; May 7, 1898, Notice #212. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Head of the Sanitary Department for the Year 1909. The Straits Times, October 19, 1909, p.6, Social and Personal.

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