Dhaliwal, Gopal Singh Dhaliwal (1925)

updated March 9, 2014.

ISMD, Sub-Assistant Surgeon; Hong Kong nlt.1925.

HONG KONG 1925. Authorized to sign certificate of the cause of death October 2, 1925.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, October 2, 1925, #551.

De, Abinash Chandra (1917)

updated March 8, 2014.

ISMD, First Class Sub-Assistant Surgeon; Hong Kong nlt.1917.

HONG KONG 1917. Authorized to sign certificate of the cause of death May 25, 1917-1922.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 25, 1917, #242; May 12, 1922, #218.

Dykes, James Stoble (1928-1936)

updated December 12, 2013.

Dentist.

LDS (St. And.) April 28, 1924. Hong Kong nlt.1928.

HONG KONG nlt.1928. Registered dental surgeon February 17, 1928-1936. Private practitioner 1928-36, address: #7 Queen's Road Central 1928. Dental Board, May 26, 1928-1936.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, February 17, 1928, #86; June 1, 1928, #313;  September 7, 1928, #503; December 6, 1935, #947; May 7, 1937, #322.

Dickin, Eric Sutton (1923-1925)

updated November 30, 2013.

Dentist.

Hong Kong nlt.1923

HONG KONG nlt.1923. Registered dental surgeon 1923-25. Private practitioner 1923-25.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 4, 1923, #207; April 9, 1926, #198.

Daugherty, Paul Rees (1920-1927)

updated December 1, 2013.

Dentist.

Hong Kong nlt.1920. Whereabouts after 1927 unknown.

HONG KONG nlt.1920. Registered dental surgeon 1920; but listed as an Exempted Person [1] 1921-27.  Private Practitioner 1920-27.

[1] Certificates of Exemption were issued to applicants who had long history practicing dentistry in Hong Kong but lacked the academic qualifications to become Registered Dental Surgeons. In Daugherty's case, the Dental Board might have made a mistake about his academic qualification during the initial registration, which was then rectified and hence the revised listing.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 7, 1920, #278; April 20, 1921, #198; September 7, 1928, #503.

De Carvalho, Arthur (1914-1927)

updated November 27, 2013.

Dentist.

Hong Kong nlt.1914.

HONG KONG nlt.1914. Registered dental surgeon 1914-27, one of the first eight dentists registered with the government following the regulation of the practice of dentistry on May 7, 1914 [1].

[1] The first dental surgeons registered with the government following the enactment of the Dentistry Ordinance 1914: Mehdy Edward Asger, Arthur de Carvalho, Chaun Moon Hung 周夢熊, Edward Evan Jones, Frederick Howard Kew, Irvin Whiteley Kew, George Wiliam McKean, and Joseph Whittlesey Noble.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, September 7, 1928, #503; May 10, 1929, #244.

Dovey, John Edward (1929-EOP)

updated October 16, 2013

MBChB (Edin.). Medical missionary. China 1925-26. Hong Kong nlt.1929-net.EOP, government doctor. Honor: The Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother December 20, 1937; Officer June 19, 1941.

HONG KONG nlt.1929. Hong Kong Government 1929-EOP, Medical Officer In-Charge, Kowloon Mortuary 1929; Railway Medical Officer [n.d.] - March 28, 1930; Medical Officer, Kowloon Hospital [n.d.] - March 25, 1930; Medical Officer, Victoria General and Maternity Hospital March 25, 1930; Medical Officer, Venereal Diseases Clinics April 1, 1930; Medical Office In-Charge, Government Civil Hospital September 1932 - February 8, 1934. Medical Officer In-Charge, Victoria General and Maternity Hospital February 24, 1934, January 1 - February 6, 1936. JP (official) September 14, 1932 - EOP. Lecturer in Therapeutics, HKU 1933-34. Defense Reserve, Key Post Group January 25, 1940. Wartime and postwar whereabouts unknown.

m. [s.n.] [1]

[Dovey gave a presentation at the Rotary Club on March 2, 1937 on the topic of "Defense Against Gas"; the speech was illustrated by a number of large models of a De-contamination Station, a gas-proof residence, and other anti-gas equipment. He was earlier sent to Felfield, Gloucestershire to take an intensive course on the subject.]

[There were two other Dovey(s) in Hong Kong around that time. Ernest Roadley Dovey joined the Hong Kong Civil Service as a Government Analyst in the Medical Department in 1915 and held that position until 1932, if not later. He had been a Justice of the Peace since 1922. He was the in Police Reserve and in 1928 was appointed as its Assistant Superintendent, and more interestingly was given the command of the Sharp Shooters' Section. The second Dovey was Dr. (Mrs.) Agnes Lilias Jenkins Dovey, who registered to practice in Hong Kong in 1928, and was in the course of 1928 to 1938 appointed to the Midwives Board, Nurses Board, and as an Inspector of Schools. She served as a Squadron Leader in RAF, attached to Bomer Command Headquarters in WWII. I wonder if the three Dovey(s) were somehow related.]

[1] Dovey was married and his wife was with him in Hong Kong, whether or not she was Agnes Lilias Jenkins is something I must investigate. As in the case of Dovey, Jenkins also received her MB, ChB degrees from the University of Edinburgh.

Selected bibliography: Evans, Dafydd Emrys, Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987, p.266. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, September 16, 1932, Notice #586; January 26, 1940, Notice #105. The Hong Kong Sunday Herald, February 28, 1937.  The London Gazette, January 4, 1938, p.30; June 27, 1941, p.3674.

Dutta, Jotindranath (1922)

updated

MBBS, Calcutta Univ. April 1920. Registered to practice Hong Kong February 10, 1922. Residence: #29 Old Bailey Street (1922).

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, February 10, 1922, Notice #68.

Durran, John (1926-EOP)

updated on September 4, 2013

Physician and Ophthalmologist.

MBBS (Edin.) 1924. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 28, 1926 through EOP. Private practitioner, 1926-EOP, address: Alexandra Building 1926, 1941. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, POW 1941-45; British Military Hospital (Bowen Road Hospital) 1942-45. Post-war whereabouts unknown.

Selected bibliography: Bowie, Donald C., Captive Surgeon in Hong Kong: The Story of the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong 1942-1945, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, Vol. #15, 1975. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 28, 1926, Notice #299; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Drew, J.B. (1872-1901+)

updated September 7, 2013

RN, Assistant Surgeon; Hong Kong nlt.1872. Hong Kong government, acting Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital and Surgeon of the Lock Hospital (vice F.E. Scanlan, AMD) November 15, 1872. Chairman, Committee of Inquiry into the Adequacy of the Staff of the Medical Department of the Colony 1901.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, November 16, 1872, Notice #217.

Dovey, Agnes Lilias Jenkins (1929-EOP)

updated on November 17, 2013

MBBS (Edin.) July 20, 1923. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 10, 1929 through EOP. Hong Kong Government, Medical Department 1929. Residence: #462 The Peak (1941). Honor: King's Silver Jubilee Medal 1935.

m. J.E. Dovey, Analyst, Medical Department, Hong Kong Government.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 10, 1929, #242; May 6, 1935, #362; May 9, 1941, #558.

Donaldson, Anson Scott (1931)

updated

CM, MD 1907 McGill Univ.; LRCP (Edin.) 1905; LMS (Glas.) 1905. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 8, 1931. Company physician, The Canadian Pacific Steamships Co., Ltd. (1931).

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 8, 1931, Notice #282.

Dollman, John (1864)

updated August 29, 2013

MRCS (Eng.).  Hong Kong nlt.1864. Hong Kong Government, Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital (vice John Roche Rice, resigned) March 11, 1864; Health Officer and Surgeon, Stone Cutters' Island Convict Hulk [1] June 21, 1864; Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital (vice John Alexander Yule, resigned) November 22, 1864.

[1] The Convict Hulk was originally the 510 ton barque Royal Saxon, which the Hong Kong Government had purchased in 1864. After having been fitted up the ship was towed to its designated mooring place between the Stone Cutters' Island and Lai Chi Kok in June [h.a.] and declared a Convict Station. 280 convicts were sent on board, from there they were transported to shore daily to perform manual labor, such as road building, etc. [I'm not sure if they actually worked in the quarry on the island.] The Hulk was discontinued in October 1866, there is no information as to what happened to Royal Saxon. Royal Saxon, a British merchantman, triggered (not by design) the Battle of Chuenpee on November 3, 1839 when it attempted to break a British blockade along the Pearl River and in confusion caused the British and Qing battleships to engage one another. The British blockade was set at the entrance of the Bocca Tigris eight days earlier intended to stop British merchants from trading with China through the southern port of Canton. The Battle of Chuenpee set the stage for an armed conflict of a much larger scale between Britain and Da Qing, which became known as the First Opium War.

Selected bibliography: Dennys, N.B., King, Charles and Mayers, William Fred., The Treaty Ports of China and Japan: a complete Guide to the Open Ports of those Countries, together with Peking, Yedo, Hongkong and Macao, Hong Kong: A. Shortrede & Co., 1867. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, March 12, 1864, Notice #48; November 26, 1864, Notice #170. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Colonial Surgeon for the Year 1863, 1866.

Dods, George (1871)

updated August 29, 2013

Hong Kong nlt.1871. Private Practitioner. Hong Kong government, acting Colonial Surgeon and Inspector of Hospitals (vice John Ivor Murray, absence on leave) January 19, 1871; (vice Robert W. McCoy, deceased) April 10, 1873.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 21, 1871, Notice #12.

Dodd, J.R. (1885)

updated August 31, 2013

AMD, surgeon; Hong Kong nlt.1885; seconded to Hong Kong Government, acting Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital (vice Charles John Wharry, sick leave) 1885.

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong Government, Report of the Colonial Surgeon for the Year 1885.

Dill, Francis (1844-d.1846, HK)

updated

The First Colonial Surgeon to Die in Office.

d. October 1846, Hong Kong. China bef. 1844. Hong Kong nlt.1844. Hong Kong Government; Hospital Surgeon to the Colony (vice Alexander Anderson) 1844; position reconstituted as Colonial Surgeon. President, CMCS (vice Alfred Green Gayton Tucker, deceased) 1845. Died suddenly from liver complication (or malarial fever) October 1846.

[Dill, as in the case of Anderson, was a local recruit; he received a reduced salary of £600 p.a., which was cut back further to £500 in 1845. The primary responsibility of the Colonial Surgeon was to look after policemen and prisoners in the goal]

[Two months before his death, Francis Dill proclaimed Hong Kong to be the healthiest British Colony in the Orient.]

Digby, Kenelm Hutchison (1913-EOP)

Kenelm Hutchison Digby

updated on November 17, 2013

b. August 4, 1884, London - d. February 23, 1953, London. MBBS (Lond.) February 9, 1907; trained at Guy’s Hospital, London 1907; FRCS 1910. Surgical Registrar, Guy’s Hospital 1909-11. Principal Medical Officer, Great Central Railway, England 1912. Hong Kong nlt.1913. Registered to practice Hong Kong September 4, 1914 through EOP. Professor of Anatomy 1913-23; Surgery 1923-45; Ho Tung Professor of Surgery 1914-45 HKU. Medical Board 1923-25. Hong Kong Government, Honorary Consultant in Surgery 1915-48; Surgeon, Queen Mary Hospital 1930-48. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, interned 1941-45 Stanley Camp; conducted a surgical clinic for fellow internees; ran a camp hospital including the performance of surgical procedures. Residence: Windy Lodge, #551 The Peak 1941. Left Hong Kong for UK 1949. Research work, Royal College of Surgeons of England. President, HKBMA 1956. Council, BMA 1952-53. Publications: Immunity in Health: the Functions of the Tonsils and the Appendix, 1919. Honor: King's Silver Jubilee Medal 1935; OBE 1939; Professor Emeritus, HKU 1945; K. H. Digby Memorial Fund, HKU 1954.

m. Selina D. Law 1913.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, September 4, 1914, #345; May 6, 1935, #362; May 9, 1941, #558.

Dickson, Walter George (1880s)

updated

b.[n.d.], Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland – d. bef. November 1895, #3 Royal Circus, Edinburgh. (Edin.). Army surgeon; Hong Kong 1880s; provided medical service to the Hong Kong Government. Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Publications: Gleaming from Japan 1923; Japan: Being a Sketch of the History, Government and Officers of the Empire 1869.

s/o Walter Dickson and Margaret Goldie [1].

[1] Dickson's father, Walter Dickson, b.1766-d.1855, was Writer to Signet in Edinburgh. His mother Margaret Goldie came from a very influential Scottish family. Her grandfather, for instance, was John Goldie, chief Magistrate for Dumfries and Sheriff Substitute for Nithsdale district. Her earlier ancestors had included Thomas Goldie who was Writer to the Privy Seal 1733, and Alexander Goldie who was the Law Agent for the British Linen Bank.

Selected bibliography: Janus: Jardine Matheson Archive [internet]. / Lee, T.A., Seekers of the Truth: the Scottish Founders of Modern Public Accountancy, Oxford: JAI Press, 2006. / Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Hundred and Sixteenth Session, 1895-96.

Dick, William (1866)

updated August 31, 2013

AMD, Surgeon; Hong Kong nlt.1866; Chairman, Commission, Yellow Fever Inquiry March 19, 1866 [1].

[1]. The three-member Commission (A Commission for the Purpose of Making Inquiry into an Epidemic Disease Represented by the Colonial Surgeon to be Yellow Fever) was appointed by the 6th Hong Kong Governor Richard Graves MacDonnell on Mach 19, 1866. The members were John Ivor Murray, Colonial Surgeon; William Dick, AMS surgeon (chairman); and Robert Bernard, RN surgeon.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 12, 1866, Notice #71.

Dempster, James Carroll (1854-1857)

updated

d. February 25, 1881. MD (Glas.) 1840. Army staff surgeon. Hong Kong with his unit nlt.1854. Seconded to Hong Kong Government, Colonial Surgeon (vice William Morrison, deceased) May 1, 1854-57; received an extra salary of £200, p.a., in addition to Army pay; introduced the treadwheel to prison in Hong Kong 1854 [1]. Left Hong Kong for India with his unit 1857; Hazara, India 1857; Sebastopol, Crimea; Ferozepore, India 1859; New Zealand 1863-65; Deputy-Inspector-General; final rank Deputy-Surgeon-General

[1] Dempster was more keen in punishing than healing with respect to his responsibility in the Goal, so much so that he introduced the treadwheel to the prison in Hong Kong as a punishment in 1854. The treadwheel was purchased in England at the cost of GBP188; it remained in use until ca.1861. Treadwheel, nicknamed "everlasting staircase" was a punishment device invented by British engineer William Cubitt.

 The actual plan of the treadwheel introduced by Demster, 1851.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 6, 1854.