Zheng Hanqi 鄭漢淇 (1902)

see Teehankee, Jose (1920)

Teehankee, Jose 鄭漢淇 (1902)

updated March 9, 2014.

Name variations: Tee Han Kee; Zheng Hanqi. LMSHK. The Philippines 1902. First Medical Director, Chinese General Hospital, Manila 1921.

HONG KONG

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette,

Webb, William Edward (1902)

updated November 2, 2013.

MB; MD. Military doctor. RAMC, Surgeon Captain, Army Medical School, Netley 1894; Colonel May 23, 1902; Assistant Professor, Army Medical School, Netley 1902; Hong Kong 1902, Principal Medical Officer, Hong Kong and China November 1902-05.

HONG KONG 1902. Sanitary Board (vice George Arthur Hughes, resigned) December 27, 1902 – August 1904. President, HKBMA 1904, 1905. Last record found ex Hong Kong 1905.

[There was a Surgeon Major-General Marshall Webb, RAMC, b.1833-d.1899, who was also an Assistant Professor of the Army Medical School in Netley. I wonder how, if, the two Webb(s) were related.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, September 27, 1902, p.1004; June 15, 1904, p.1488; April 1, 1905, p.131. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 2, 1903, #3. The London Gazette, July 22, 1902, p.4673.

[Proactive research ended October 28, 2013.]

Laing, Ernest Alexander Ronald (1902-1905)

updated November 1, 2013

LRCP; LRCS. Hong Kong nlt.1902-05, government doctor. England 1906. Certifying Surgeon, Rochford, Essex July 9, 1906 (appointed by Factory Department, Home Office). Private practitioner, Rochford, Drs. Lewis (Arthur Cedric) and Laing [n.d.] - October 13, 1908.

HONG KONG nlt.1902. Government doctor 1902-05. Assistant Surgeon, Medical Department February 27, 1902. Medical Office In-Charge, Government Lunatic Asylums 1902. Assistant Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital [n.d.]– July 1905. JP (official) 1903-05. Lieutenant (Supernumerary Medical Officer), HKVDC December 4, 1903 – June 29, 1905, resigned. Last record found ex Hong Kong 1905.

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong Government, Report of the Medical Officer of Health on Plague 1905. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer for the Year 1902. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, 1902, April 18 (#234); 1903, May 8 (#279), December 4 (#803); 1905, June 30 (#407). The London Gazette, July 10, 1906, p.4720; October 27, 1908, p.7790.

[Proactive research ended November 1, 2013.]

Lee Yin-sze 李賢士 (1902-EOP)

updated December 24, 2013.

Hong Kong nlt.1897.

HONG KONG. LMSHK 1902. Assistant to the Government Bacteriologist, William Hunter, October 14, 1902-1903 [1]. Authorized to practice July 8, 1908 - EOP [2]. Public Dispensary, Yaumati 1908. Private practitioner net.1908-EOP, address: 2/F., #475 Nathan Road 1941. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1908-EOP.

[1] Three Chinese, all holders of LMSHK, were appointed as Assistant to the Government Bacteriologist. They were: Chan Fai-kwong, Ho Ko-tsun 何高俊, Lee Yin-sze 李賢士. This was the first instance Chinese were appointed; the positions were previously held by Japanese.
[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.

[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: Hong Kong Government, Report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer for the Year 1902. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 10, 1908, Notice #482; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Lau Lai 劉禮 (1902)

updated May 24, 2014.

Hong Kong nlt.1897

HONG KONG. LMSH^[1] 1902. Resident Medical Officer, Government Dispensary, Wanchai April 29, 1902. Public Vaccinator April 29, 1902. Government Dispensary, Tai Po January 8, 1903 - 1906. Authorized to practice December 1909. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1909.

[1] LMSH was the qualification awarded to graduates of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese HKCMC (1887-1912). Holders of LMSH 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, LMSH 1893, was permitted to practice at the Alice Memorial Hospital 1893.

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong Government, Report on the Health and Sanitary Condition of the Colony of Hong Kong, for the Year 1906, p.397. Hong Kong Government, Report on the New Territories for the Year 1902. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer for the Year 1903. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 2, 1902, Notice #270; December 24, 1909, #821.

Keyt, Frederick Theobald (1902)

updated

MB, CM 1888, MD (Honors), DPH 1902 (Aber.). Assistant Colonial Surgeon and District Commissioner, British Honduras 1892-1902. Hong Kong 1902.

HONG KONG 1902. Government doctor. Second Port Health Officer October 24, 1902. Lecturer in Practice of Medicine, HKCMC 1905-12; one of the nine lecturers transferred from HKCMC to the Faculty of Medicine, HKU 1912 [1].  Club: Hong Kong Club, Cricket Club, and Corinthian Yacht Club.

b. February 25, 1866, Jaffna, Ceylon. s/o Frederick Theobald Keyt (Sr.) (b. January 20, 1842, Colombo – d. December 19, 1903; LMS, Calcutta 1863; MD, CM (Aber.) 1881; Colonial Surgeon, Civil Medical Department, Ceylon) and Henrietta Elizabeth Kriekenbeek.

[This revision includes information provided by Lindy Moore of North Wales, UK. Thank you, Lindy.]

[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: 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, October 31, 1902, #659.

Ho Ko-tsun 何高俊 (1902-EOP)

updated January 1, 2014.

Ho Ko-tsun. Credit: Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China

Hong Kong born. Canton 1911-15. Deputy Director of Public Health, Canton 1911. Hong Kong ca.1916. Honor: OBE June 1949.

HONG KONG. Queen's college 皇仁書院, recipient of Belilios Award; LMSHK 1902. Acting house surgeon, Tung Wah Hospital 1901-02. Assistant to the Government Bacteriologist, William Hunter, October 14, 1902-1903 [1].  Resident surgeon, Nethersole and Ho Miu Ling Hospitals 1903-06. Medical Officer, Chinese Public Dispensary, East Distrcit (located in Wanchai). Public Vaccinator October 9, 1901. Authorized to practice (as a private practitioner) July 8, 1908 [2]. Private practitioner, 1908-EOP, address: 1/F., #55 Queen's Road Central 1941. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1908-EOP. Lecturer, Osteology and Surgery, HKCMC. Founding President and lecturer in Hygiene, Tai Yuk School 體育學校 (Hollywood Road) 1908. Inaugural Chairman, Yeung Wo Nursing Home (forerunner of Hong Kong Sanitarium) 1922. Member, Guangdong Medical Gongjinhui 1910 [3]. Club: Hong Kong Chinese Swimming Association 香港華人游泳會, founding member 1910.

b. August 10, 1878, Hong Kong - d. June 6, 1953, Hong Kong. Protestant.
m. [s.n.] Ma. Had issues: 1.Ho Fat-chung 何法中 (d.infancy, or neonatal death); 2. Ho Kin-chung 何健中 (d.infancy, or neonatal death); 3. Ho Chung-chung 何中中 (Ph.D.; Founder and Principal, True Light Middle School of Hong Kong 香港真光中學 1946; MBE; JP); 4. Ho Yuk-chung 何育中; 5. Ho Mei-chung 何尾中.

Publications: A Treatise on First Aid to the Wounded; Simple Remedies in varous Emergencies; 廣東省政府取締醫務之原因 (Reasons why Guangdong Government Banned Medical Services), China Medical Journal, March 1913 (all three published in Chinese).

[1] Three Chinese, all holders of LMSHK, were appointed as Assistant to the Government Bacteriologist. They were: Chan Fai-kwong, Ho Ko-tsun 何高俊, Lee Yin-sze 李賢士. This was the first instance Chinese were appointed; the positions were previously held by Japanese.
[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.

[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.

The Guangdong Medical Gongjinhui held a welcome party to honor a visit to Canton by Sun Yat-sen in May 1912. Ho sat on the front row, first right. Credit: Yangcheng Evening News Digital Media.

[3] Ho was listed in 1910 as an active member, Guangdong Medical Gongjinhui 廣東醫學共進會, the medical branch of a republican movement group founded in Tokyo in 1905.

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong Government, Report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer for the Year 1902. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, October 12, 1901, #595; May 9, 1941, Notice #558. Wright, Arnold, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China, London: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Co., Ltd., 1908, p.180.

Forsyth, Charles (1902)

updated September 21, 2013

b. 1875 Neston, Cheshire, England - d. December 29, 1955. MBBS August 11, 1898, DTM, MD (Edin.); FRCS (Edin.) 1902. Hong Kong nlt.1902. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 13, 1904. Private practitioner, Drs. Adams and Jordan 1904; name partner, Drs. Jordan, Forsyth, Grove & Aubrey 1921. Hong Kong Government, Acting Assistant Health Officer of the Port (vice Fritz Grone, absence on leave) September 12, 1910. Lecturer in Pathology 1902, Pathology and Bacteriology, Midwifery and Gynaecology, HKCMC; one of the nine lecturers transferred from HKCMC to the Faculty of Medicine, HKU 1912 [1]. HKU Senate. Club: Kowloon Cricket Club, President 1910-23. Residence: The Grove, MacDonnell Road 1904.

[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, May 13, 1904, Notice #359; September 16, 1910, Appt. #287.

Barnett, Bertram Leeds Thomas (1902)

updated

b.1875 – d. April 18, 1915, Farmham, Surrey, Sussex; bur. Aldershot Military Cemetary, Hampshire. BA, MB (Cantab.); MRCS; LRCP; DHP. Hong Kong nlt.1902. Hong Kong Government, Assistant Medical Officer of Health April 1902. Secretary, Board of Examiners [1]. Left Hong Kong bef.1909. Admitted to practice as a solicitor England November 1909. RASC, Captain, 2nd County of London 1909; Temporary Captain November 14, 1914, January 18, 1915. Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire 1910s. Killed accidentally (how unspecified) April 18, 1915.

s/o Thomas and Sarah Barnett, of Holm Leas, Worthing, Sussex.

[1] The Board of Examiners was established in 1903 by the Hong Kong Council of the Sanitary Institute. The Board was to institutionalize an examination mechanism for sanitary officers in Hong Kong.

Selected bibliography: flickr.com › red-eye [internet]. Geni.com [internet]. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, September 25, 1903, Notice #628. The London Gazette, November 17, 1914; January 29, 1915. Record of Service of Solicitors and Articled Clerks with His Majesty's Forces, 1914-1919, London: 1920. Roll of Honor › Cambridgeshire › Ely – WWI [internet]. Supplement to the Journal of the Sanitary Institute, Vol. #XXV, April 1904, London: The Sanitary Institute, 1904.

Chan Fai-kwong (1902-d.1903 HK)

updated December 26, 2013.

HONG KONG. LMSHK 1902. Assistant to the Government Bacteriologist, William Hunter, October 14, 1902-1903 [1]. Chan died suddenly of Acute Yellow Atrophy January 31, 1903.

[1] Three Chinese, all holders of LMSHK, were appointed as Assistant to the Government Bacteriologist. They were: Chan Fai-kwong, Ho Ko-tsun 何高俊, Lee Yin-sze 李賢士. This was the first instance Chinese were appointed; the positions were previously held by Japanese.
[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.

[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: Hong Kong Government, Report of the Government Bacteriologist for the Year 1903. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer for the Year 1902.