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.

Minett, Edward Pigott (1922-1931)

updated March 19, 2014.

d. October 5, 1935 Devon. MRCS; LRCP; DPH 1907 (Cantab.); trained at Guy’s Hospital; MD (Brussels) 1907; DTMH 1909. British Guiana, Assistant Government Bacteriologist 1910; Government Bacteriologist and Medical Officer of Health. Honorary Secretary and representative for British Guiana at the West Indian Medical Conference June 28 - July 13, 1921. Honorary Secretary, Fellow, and Examiner, the West Indian Branch of the Royal Sanitary Institute 1922. Hong Kong 1922. Medical Officer of Health, British Guiana. BMA, member since 1909.

HONG KONG 1922. Government doctor, Government Bacteriologist (vice C.Y. Wang, resigned) 1922; Officer In-Charge, Bacteriological Institute 1922. Lecturer and Examiner in Hygiene and Medical Jurisprudence, HKU. Medical Officer, HKVDC. JP (official) 1927. Left Hong Kong 1931.

m. Ethel Mary Minett.

Publications: Further Report on the Nastin and Benzoyl-chloride Treatment for Leprosy at the Mahaica Leper Asylum, British Guiana, 1910-11. (London: Colonial Office, Cd 6023, 1912) Diagnosis of Bacteria and Blood Parasites, Practical Tropical Sanitation 1927 (his wife was a co-author). A Cheap Form of Artesian Water Supply for Villages in the Tropics, A Review of the Water Supplies of Hong Kong.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, October 19, 1935, p.766, Obituary. The China Mail, August 15, 1932, p.6, Dr. E.P. Minett, New Appointment in British Guiana. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 10, 1927, Notice #349.

Mehta, Manukjee Sorabjee (1920)

updated July 8, 2013.

MD (Brussels) 1879; LRCP&S (Edin.); LSA (Lond.). Registered to practice Hong Kong July 9, 1920. Private practitioner, address: #24 Ice House Street 1920.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 9, 1920, Notice #378.

Li Sung 李崧 (1922-1948+)

updated on August 16, 2013.

LRCP (Lond.) January 26, 1900; MRCS (Eng.) December 1908; MBBS, MD May 1908 (Lond.). MD (Brussels) 1908. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 5, 1922. Ho Miu Ling Hospital 1922. Private practitioner net.1922-EOP, address: 1/F, #82 Queen's Road Central 1941. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948, address: Bank of East Asia 1948.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 5, 1922, Notice #203; May 9, 1941, Notice #558. 《香港年鑑》Hong Kong Year Book.