Wong Sai-yan 黃細恩 (1895)

updated December 19, 2013.

Hong Kong nlt.1890.

HONG KONG. LMSHK 1895. Authorized to practice July 8, 1908. Private practitioner 1908. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1908.

[2] 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.

Clark, Francis William (1895-1922)

Francis W. Clark

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Hong Kong's First Medical Officer of Health.

b. June 23, 1864. MRCS, LRCP (Lond.) 1886; (Cantab.), DPH 1891, MB 1892; MD (Durham) 1900. Trained at St. Bartholomew and Middlesex Hospitals. Lowestaff, Superintendent of the Fever Hospital; Medical Officer of Health. Hong Kong 1895. Hong Kong Government, Hong Kong's first Medical Office of Health 1895; Principal Medical Office of Health 1905-06. HKCMC, Dean 1907-15; Lecturer in Diseases of Tropical Climates 1909-12, Hygiene 1897-1906, Physiology 1896-99. One of the nine teaching staff transferred to the Faculty of Medicine, HKU in 1912 [1]. HKU, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence; Dean, Faculty of Medicine 1912-15; Life Member, University Court 1911; University Senate 1912. Sanitary Board. Acting Colonial Veterinary Surgeon (vice Adam Gibson, MRCVS, absence on leave) March 20, 1907, August 24, 1910. Director, Widows and Orphans' Pension Fund (vice David Wood) April 18, 1907. JP (official) 1896. Secretary-Treasurer General, Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine 1912. Legislative Council 1902. Honorary Treasurer, Church Body 1909. Club: Corinthian Yacht Club, commodore; Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club; Hong Kong Club. Left Hong Kong 1922. Consular Medical Officer, Mukden, later Weihaiwei.

[1] HKCMC teaches transferred to the staff of the Faculty of Medicine, HKU in 1912 were: Francis William Clark, Charles Forsyth, Arthur C. Franklin, Gregory Paul Jordan, Frederick Theobald Keyt, Wilfred Vincent Miller Koch, Harold MacFarlane, Oswald Marriott and Wilfred William Pearse.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, April 12, 1907, Appt. #240; April 19, 1907, Appt. #265; April 23, 1909, Notice #251; August 26, 1910, Appt. #263.