Macfarlane, Harold (1903-d.1919, HK)

updated June 30, 2013.

b. July 15, 1876 - d. February 7, 1919, Hong Kong.

MBBS (Edin.); LRCP (Lond.); LRCS (Edin.); DPH (Oxon.). Hong Kong September 1903. Hong Kong Government, Assistant Medical Officer of Health September 25, 1903; Government Bacteriologist [1] April 30, 1909 - 1918; Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer (vice John Taylor Connell Johnson) January 24, 1919. Lecturer in Chemistry and Physics 1905-07, Chemistry 1907-1909, HKCMC. One of the nine HKCMC teaching staff transferred to HKU when it became established in 1912 [2]. HKU Senate 1912. Publications: The Stegomyia Survey in Hong Kong, Bulletin of Entomological Research, February 1915, Vol. #6, Issue #1. Club: Hong Kong Club. Died suddenly on February 7, 1919.

s/o William Alexander MacFarlane, MD.
m. Laura Gertrude Massy [3] August 5, 1903.

[1] While working at Bacteriological Institute, Macfarlane took charge of a government investigation of Stegomyia mosquitoes, the findings was later published. He also made a study, collaborating with Adam Gibson, MRCVS, the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, on flies in Hong Kong.

[2] 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.

[3] Laura Gertrude Massy was the daughter of the Rev. Xavier Peel Massy, who was the Rector of Colinton, Edinburgh. The year next following Macfarlane's death, she remarried Philip Peveril John Wodehouse on October 6, 1920. She died on February 2, 1959.

Selected bibliography: Dafydd Emrys Evans (1987) Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. / The Hong Kong Government Gazette, September 25, 1903, Notice #629; October 15, 1909, Appt. #646; January 24, 1919, Appt. #42. / Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences Society, Plague, SARS, and the Story of Medicine in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. / Lucas, Edward Verrall, Who's Who in the Far East, 1906-7, Hong Kong: 1907. / The Peerage [internet].

Lambelle, Frederick William (1903-1905)

updated March 7, 2014

MBBS (Durham); RAMC, Captain; Major, Hong Kong 1903-05; Burma ca.1912; Commended for Services March 3, 1917; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel August 8, 1917; in-placed in-charge of a newly-formed Women's Department of Stretcher Bearers, York County Hospital; placed on retired pay (due to illness caused by military services) 1921. Accredited as the first physician to explore enzyme or pancreatic treatment of cancer 1913.

HONG KONG 1903. Lecturer in Physiology, HKCMC 1903-05.

Publications: A Case of Malignant Tumor, Treated by Trypsin, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps., Vol. #13, 1909, p.71. The Utilities of Enzymes in Malaria, Medical Record, November 22, 1913, pp.928-931. Trypanosomiasis and Surra. A Preliminary Note Upon the Effect of Pancreatic Enzymes Upon the Trypanosome of Surra 1913.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, March 10, 1917, p.346; April 9, 1921, p.95. The Edinburgh Gazette, August 10, 1917, p.1609. Evans, Dafydd Emrys (Ed.), Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987.

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Koch, Wilfred Vincent Miller (1903)

updated on April 8, 2014.

b. October 29, 1862 Jaffna, Ceylon - d. August 28, 1939. St. Thomas' College, Ceylon. MB, CM 1884, MD 1895, (Edin.). Medical officer, various hospitals in London and Sheffield 1884-88. Colonial Medical Services 1889, Trinidad 1889-1903, Army Major in command of the Trinidad Artillery. Hong Kong 1903.

HONG KONG 1903. Government doctor, Medical Officer 1903-17; Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital 1914-17. Registered to practice November 2, 1917. Private practitioner 1917. Sanitary Board 1920-25. Legislative Council 1926. Licensing Board November 14, 1927, three years term. Justice of the Peace. Vice President, HKBMA 1907-08. District surgeon, St. John Ambulance Overseas Brigade. Lecturer in Surgery, HKCMC 1905-12. Lecturer in Surgery, HKU 1912-17^[1]. University Senate, HKU 1912. Club: Hong Kong. Address: Hotel Mansions 1917.

s/o Edwin Lawson Koch, MD^[2]
m/1 Ida Nathan; m/2 Ellen Elliott Drake Briscoe; m/3 Elsie M. Thompson.

Publications: A research into the etiology of beri-beri, together with a report on an outbreak in the Po-Leung-Ku, co-author William Hunter, 1906.

[Koch was referred to as a professor in several sources without specifying the name(s) of university and faculty.]

[1] HKCMC teachers 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.

[2] Koch Sr. (b.1838, Jaffna, Ceylon – d. 1877, Jaffna, Ceylon) was a descendent of Godfried Koch of Brandenburg, Prussia who went to India in the ship "Rosenberg" in 1755 and later moved to Jaffna. Koch Sr. was a much loved and respected doctor in Ceylon. He was also the second principal of the Colombo Medical School. When he suddenly died at the age of 39, the grateful public of Ceylon offered subscriptions to pay for W.V.M. Koch’s medical education in Britain. [What I fail to find is any information that mentions Koch, the son, had worked in Ceylon to repay the society that he owed his medical career.]

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, November 2, 1917, #488; February 23, 1923, #86; November 10, 1927, #657.