Sanders, James Herbert (1907-1932)

Reference letter written by J. H. Sanders for Nurse Ellen Johnson, Matilda Hospital. 1920 / source: by kind permission of Peter Maleczek, flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/backmanmal/8319400200/in/photostream/

updated August 25, 2013

Obstetrician / Gynecologist.

More commonly known as J. Herbert Sanders. d. May 16, 1956, Devon. MRCS (Eng.) February 10, 1900; LRCP (Lond.); MD (Brussels) February 10, 1900. Resident Medical Officer, London Hospital. Adviser, London Throat Hospital. Hong Kong 1906. Registered to practice Hong Kong July 23, 1907 through 1932. Medical Superintendent, Matilda Hospital 1907 [1]. Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, HKBMA 1907-08. The Great War, Resident Medical Officer, London Hospital; Senior Medical Officer, Norwich Military Hospital; Senior Medical Officer, Norfolk Military Hospital. Hong Kong after the Great War, resumed position at Matilda Hospital. Medical Board, acting member (vice Robert Maclean Gibson) May 27, 1918; member 1919. Publications: Boracic Acid Poisoning, The British Medical Journal, March 16, 1912, p.605; Congenital Absence of One Ovary and the Corresponding Fallopian Tube, The British Medical Journal, June 23, 1928, p.1065. Residence: #70 The Peak 1907.

[Sanders was sued by a former patient for malpractice in 1923. The exact allegations made by the complainant, Thorward Anderson, formerly a foreman with Hong Kong Wharf and Godown Company were “unskillful or negligent treatment” to his hand. Anderson suffered multiple injuries after falling 12 feet to the ground while working in the wharf on December 13, 1921. He went to the Kowloon Hospital for first aids and the doctor in charge, James Thornton Smalley, referred him to Sanders for follow up treatments. Anderson went to the Matilda Hospital on the following day to see Sanders who then became his attending surgeon. Anderson alleged that Sanders had treated his other injuries caused by the fall but failed to treat his right hand, which he put out in an attempt to break the fall, as a result causing bone fractures. The trial, presided over by Chief Justice William Rees-Davies, began on December 17, 1923. On the third day of the trial, the jury plainly told the court that there was no ground to continue further as the complainant clearly had not proved his case. Ree-Davies gave a verdict for the defendant and did so with an order for the complainant to pay costs.]

[1]. Sanders was the first medical superintendent of the Matilda Hospital. He probably ran the hospital entirely on his own while treating patients at the same time until the 1923 joining of Dr. Harry Lechmere Clift.

Selected bibliography: The China Mail, December 17, 1923, p.1, 4, Dr. Sanders Sued. Hong Kong Daily Pres, December 19, 1923, p.5, Allegations against a Doctor. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 26, 1907, Notice #490; May 5, 1933, Notice #317.

Paul, David Robert (1907)

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LRCP, LRCS (Edin.) January 2, 1884; LM, RCS. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 7, 1907. Residence: #31 Shelley Street 1907.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazetter, May 10, 1907, Notice #335.

Mitchell, Isaiah Edward (1907)

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BA, MD, CM (Montreal) June 1903. Missionary. London Missionary Society. China 1904. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 7, 1907. London Missionary, address: #6 Bonham Road 1907.

m. Eleanor Whitworth Perkins.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 10, 1907, Notice #335.

Majima Keinosuke 馬島珪之助 (1907-1923)

updated August 15, 2013.

Medical College, Japan Imperial Univ. March 30, 1898. 疫苗製造所技師兼臨時檢疫局事務官[ ]內務技師從七位, 鳳山縣醫院長 Superintendent, Fengshan County Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan January 15, 1898. 臺灣總督府醫院醫長 Superintendent, Taiwan Governor's Office Hospital December 8, 1899. Registered medical practitioner Hong Kong May 7, 1907 through 1923, 17 years in total. Founder of Majima Hospital 馬島病院, #185 Wanchai Road. Publications: 《細菌学的虎列剌診斷：臨床應用》東京市，誠之堂書店，1896。 《實扶垤里亞血清療法》合著者：李祥麟 ，台北市：文明書局總發行，1908。Address in Hong Kong: #177 Wanchai Road 1907; Killadoon, #151 Wanchai Road 1908.

m. K. Majima.

[Doctors engaged by the Majima Hospital at different times: Aragaki Tsunemasa 新垣恒政, Ishimitsu Kaoru, Munehiro Jungo 宗廣純吾 and Martin Peter Motoi Itoh.]

[The Majima Hospital was closed in December 1941 in conjunction with the mandatory evacuation of Japanese from Hong Kong imposed by the Japanese Government. The hospital was confiscated by the Hong Kong Government after the war and re-launched as Wanchai Female VD Hospital 灣仔婦女性病醫院. It was renamed Wanchai Hospital 灣仔醫院 in 1969, maintaining its specialty. The listing of the hospital in the Hong Kong Year Book discontinued in 1971; there is no information regarding when it was finally closed.]

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 10, 1907, Notice #335. 《香港年鑑》第九回至第二十四回，醫療輯要 (Hong Kong Year Book, 1956-1971)。 《臺灣總督府報》第231號，明治31年1月27日；第656號，明治32年12月13日。

Ho Nai-tsun 何乃全 (1907)

updated December 20, 29013.

Hong Kong nlt.1902.

HONG KONG. LMSHK 1907. Authorized to practice July 8, 1908 [1]. Private practitioner 1908. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1908.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 10, 1908, Notice #482.

Chung Yik-sun 鍾奕順 (1907-EOP)

updated December 17, 2013.

Hong Kong nlt.1902.

HONG KONG. LMSHK 1907. Authorized to practice July 8, 1908 [1]. Private practitioner 1908-EOP, address: 1/F, #313 Nathan Road 1941. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1908-EOP.

[1] LMSHK was the qualification awarded to graduates of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese HKCMC (1887-1912). Holders of LMSHK were not authorized to practice as private practitioners until July 8, 1908 [a]. From that day on they were permitted to practice as "exempted persons", but not to be listed in the Medical Register and not be addressed officially as "Dr".

[a] There were hospital appointments, more particularly at missionary or charitable hospitals, prior to 1908. For instance, Kwan King-leung 關景良, LMSHK 1893, was permitted to practice at the Alice Memorial Hospital 1893.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 10, 1908, Notice #482; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Belilios, Raphael Aaron (1907)

updated September 7, 2013

d. June 19, 1929, General Hospital, Shanghai. MBBS, MD July 28, 1905 (Edin.); FRCS (Edin.) October 21, 1903. Hong Kong nlt.1907. Registered to practice Hong Kong March 4, 1907. Lecturer in physiology, HKCMC 1908-12. Residence: Kingsclere 1907.

[A source refers to Belilios as an eye specialist in Hong Kong and Shanghai.]

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, October 31, 1903, Public Health. / Evans, Dafydd Emrys (Ed.) Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, March 8, 1907, Notice#158. / The Straits Times, June 29, 1929, p.8, Social and Personal.

Aubrey, George Ernest (1907-1923)

updated August 24, 2013

MRCS (Eng.). LRCP (Lond.); MBBS December 16, 1904, MD (Lond.). Registered to practice Hong Kong March 14, 1907. Private practitioner 1907, name partner, Drs. Jordan, Forsyth, Grove & Aubrey, address: Alexandra Building 1921. Hong Kong Government, Honorary Visiting Physician, Government Civil Hospital 1914-23, resigned. Dental Board, one of the five initial members 1914 [1]. Private hospital, Consultant surgeon, Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals. Acting Member, Medical Board (vice Murray Stewart) January 24, 1913. Lecturer in Clinical Medicine, HKU 1914-20. Acting Member, Midwives Board (vice Robert Maclean Gibson) October 18, 1919. Publication: Venereal Diseases among the Natives of Hong Kong, The Caduceus, 1922, Vol. #1 H. Macfarlane, co-author). Residence: Peak Hotel 1907.

m. Dora Constance August 1, 1912.

[1] Inaugural members of the Dental Board July 17, 1914: John Taylor Connell Johnson (PCMO, ex-official, chairman), George Ernest Aubrey, Frederic Osmund Stedman, Frederick Hoard Kew, Joseph Whittlesey Noble.

Selected bibliography: Davidson, Roger (Ed.), Hall, Lesley A. (Ed.), Sex, Sin and Suffering: Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870, London: Routledge, 2001. Evans, Dafydd Emrys (Ed.) Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, March 15, 1907, Notice #175; January 24, 1913, Appt. #17; July 10, 1914, Appt. #256; July 17, 1914, Appt. #263; October 24, 1919, Appt. #498.