Yeo Kok-cheung 楊國璋 (1926)

Yeo Kok-cheung, Florence Ho-Tung and children, 1937.

updated October 28, 2013.

The first Chinese to be Appointed Director of Medical and Health Services.

Name variations: Yeo Kok-cheang; K.C. Yeo. b. April 1, 1903, Penang - d. May 22, 2004, Battle, East Sussex; MBBS 1925, MD 1930 (HK); DPH (Cantab) 1926; DPMH (Lond.) 1927. registered to practice Hong Kong January 13, 1926. Hong Kong Government, Government Civil Hospital 1926; Assistant Medical Officer of Health 1927; Chinese Health Officer, Senior Grade 1939; Deputy Director of Health Services, Health Adviser to Urban Council 1947; Deputy Director of Medical and Health Services 1950; Director of Medical and Health Services 1952-58 (the first local civil servant to rise to the substantive position of a department director). First Unit Controller, Auxiliary Medical Service 1952. HKU, Lecturer and examiner in Public Health 1928; Lecturer in Public Health 1936-38; Chair Professor of Social Medicine 1952-57. President, HKCMA 1932. JP (official) 1938. Official Member of Legislative Council 1951-57. Vice Chairman of Urban Council. England nlt.1963. Senior Hospital Medical Officer (Psychiatry), St Ebbaís Hospital, Epsom, Surrey 1963. Honor: CMG 1956; WHO Traveling Fellow 1948.

Protestant. s/o Yeu Kim Hong of Penang.
m. Florence Ho-Tung 何孝姿 , March 24, 1933; b.1916; d/o Robert Ho-Tung 何東 and Clara Cheung Ching-yung 張靜蓉.

[Yeo, who lived until 101 years old, claimed himself the holder of the world record in sitting ups for his body weight for several years.]

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 15, 1926, Notice #25. / The Telegraph, November 13, 2004, Obituaries, K.C. Yeo [internet].

Wu Tai-piao (1939-1941+)

updated August 16, 2013

Name variations: Wu Ta-piao. MBBS (HK) December 14, 1928. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 8, 1931. Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, HKCMA 1939. Residence: address 1: #8 Ashley Road 1931; address 2:Villa Ellenbud, Sasson Road 1941.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 8, 1931, Notice #282; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Woo Wai-tak, Arthur 胡惠德 (1919-d.1964)

Arthur Woo

updated October 1, 2013.

Obstetrician and Gynecologist; Rotarian to Rejuvenate the Club after WWII.

Diocesan Boys' School; studied Latin and French in England; trained and qualified at Middlesex Hospital 1913; LRCP (Lond.) January 1913; MRCS (Eng.) January 1913; MBBS (Lond.) May 1916;  FRCS (Eng.) May 12, 1949; FICS (Hon.); studied in New York and Baltimore under a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship, including training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. WWI, military hospitals in Britain. Gravesend General Hospital. General Lyinim Hospital. Brompton Hospital. Obstetric and Gynecological House Surgeon, Middlesex Hospital. Peking (Beijing). First Assistant to Professor J. Preston Maxwell, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Peking Union Medical College 協和醫學院. Medical Advisor to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Transportation, ROC. Personal physician to ROC President Li Yuanhong 黎元洪. Hong Kong nlt.1919. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 9, 1919. Private practitioner 1919, address: China Building. Lecturer in Gynecology and Obstetrics; Internal Examiner, HKU. Private hospital, honorary consulting gynecologist, Nethersole Hospital; Medical Superintendent (and owner), Babington Hospital 惠德頤養院, Babington Path 巴丙頓道. President, HKCMA 1924-25. Council, HKBMA. President, China Medical Association 中國博醫會 1928 [1]. Y's Men's Club, President 1935, 1936; Governor, South China District 1936. International Medical Relief Committee, Founder and Inaugural Chairman 1937. JP (unofficial) 1938. Residence: #11 Old Bailey 1919. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948, address 1: 1/F, Alexandra Building 1948; address 2: Edinburgh House 1960s. Director, St. John Ambulance Association, Hong Kong 1952. Largely responsible for the re-establishment of the Rotary Club of Hong Kong 1945 (the Rotary was initially formed in 1932). Honor: King's Silver Jubilee Medal 1935; The British Realm of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Associate Serving Brother 1938; Commander 1949. OBE June 10, 1954. Club: Chinese Recreational Club, director.

b. 1888 Hong Kong – d. February 1964 Hong Kong. Protestant, Hong Kong Anglican Church. s/o U I-kai 胡爾楷. Siblings: 1. Katie Woo, PhD. 胡素貞, headmistress of St. Paul’s Girls’ School 1916-52.

Publications: Cervicitis and Its Treatment by the Newer Dyes, [n.l.], 1922. A Study of Three Cases of Leucorrhea, Chinese Medical Journal of China, 1924.

Reverdin's Needle

[Designer of Reverdin-Woo neddle. Woo demonstrated the use of his modification of Reverdin's needle on September 21, 1929 at the Peking Union Medical College. The original Reverdin's needle, a handled needle for surgical use with eye aperture controlled by thumb stud, was invented by Swiss surgeon Jacques L. Reverdin in 1879. The needle is sometime referred to as the Reverdin-Woo needle.]

[Woo went to England in 1921 to receive specialist treatment of undisclosed nature and there was false reports of his death as the result of the treatment.]

[Woo was sued in 1935 by John S.H. Waan, Chinese Secretary to the Italian Consul-General for willful neglect and exposure of a patient, causing grievous injury to health. The patient in question was Wann's 31-month-old daughter, Natalina, who died after having been under the care of Woo. The trial ended after Woo's lawyer submitted no case to answer on the grounds of lack of evidence.]

[1] Woo was the first Chinese elected to the office of President of the China Medical Association 中國博醫會. He was also the last president of the association which in April 1932 amalgamated with the Chinese Medical Association 中華醫學會 and ceased to exist henceforth. The China Medical Association was originally the Medical Missionary Society of Canton founded in February 21, 1838. The words "of Canton" in the name of the society was later replaced by "in China".

Selected bibliography: Address & Papers , Dedication Ceremonies and Medical Conference, Peking Union Medical College, September 15-22, 1921, Peking: Peking Union Medical College, 1922, p.385. British Medical Journal, June 19, 1954, p.1435, Medical Birthday Honors. Carroll, John M., Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong, Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2005. The China Mail, August 4, 1936, p. 7, Y's Men's Club, Dr. Arthur Woo Re-elected. Hong Kong Daily Press, February 4, 1936, p.7, Y's Men's Clubs, Dr. Arthur Woo. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 9, 1919, Notice #205; May 4, 1923, Notice #206; May 9, 1941, Notice #558. The Hong Kong Telegraph, August 15, 1935, p. 7, No Case to Answer, Dr. Arthur Woo Vindicated; September 30, 1937, front page, Coordinating Aid for War Victims, Dr. Arthur Woo Heads Local Organization. London Gazette, January 4, 1938, p.30; June 24, 1949, p.3132. The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, June 21, p.7; August 30, 1935, p.11, Well Known Doctor Sued, Neglect of Baby Patient Alleged.

Woo Tin-po 吳天保 (1918)

updated

MBBS (Edin.) December 19, 1915. Registered to practice Hong Kong October 25, 1918. Vice President, HKCMA 1922. Residence: #21 Bonham Road 1918.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, October 25, 1918, Notice #420.

Wong Tsz-chuen 王子傳 (1917-1946+)

updated on August 16, 2013

MBBS (HK) June 7, 1917. Registered to practice Hong Kong June 15, 1917. Private hospital, Ho Miu Ling Hospital 1917. Private practitioner, 1921-EOP, address 1: #66 Queen's Road Central 1921; address 2: 3/F, King's Theater Building 1941. Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, HKCMA 1924, 1935. Midwives Board 1933-39, 1946.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 15, 1917, Notice #281; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Wang Chung-ching 王寵慶 (1920)

updated

MBBS June 30, 1914, MD September 1, 1916 (Edin.); Scottish Branch of General Council of Medical Education and Registration, UK. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 9, 1919 through 1937; re-registered on March 23, 1939. Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, HKCMA 1920. Residence, address 1: #39 Robinson Road 1919; address 2: #81 Robinson Road 1939.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 9, 1919, Notice #205; March 24, 1939, #228.

Tseung, Fat-im 蔣法賢 (1925-1948+)

updated August 18, 2013

MBBS (HK) 1925. Registered to practice Hong Kong December 31, 1925. Private practitioner 1925-EOP, address: 4/F, China Building 1941. HKCMA, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer 1927, 1929; Vice President 1934. Medical Board 1930-36. Nutrition Advisory Council [n.d.]. Residence: #25 Hill Road 1925. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948 at the prewar address.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, December 31, 1925, Notice #755; May 9, 1941, Notice #558. 《香港年鑑》香港：華僑日報 (Hong Kong Year Book)。

Sun Jue-yow, Edward Wickham 孫潤焜 (1930-EOP)

updated August 14, 2013

MBBS (HK) May 1928. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 9, 1930 through EOP. Hong Kong Government, Government Civil Hospital 1930. Private practitioner net.1930-EOP, address: 4/F, King's Theatre Building 1941. HKCMA, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer 1937; President 1940, 1941.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 9, 1930, Notice #296; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Phoon Seck-wah 潘錫華 (1922-1948+)

updated August 18, 2013

MBBS (HK) December 1921. Registered to practice Hong Kong March 31, 1922-EOP. Hong Kong Government, Government Civil Hospital 1922. Private practitioner net.1922-EOP. Vice President, HKCMA 1929. Midwives Board 1930-33. Dental Board [n.d.]. Residence: R.B.L. 373 New Tai Hang Road 1941. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948, address: 1/F, Loke Yew Building 1948.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, March 31, 1922, Notice #160; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.《香港年鑑》香港：華僑日報 (Hong Kong Year Book)。

Moore, Philip 毛文奇 (1939-EOP)

updated August 12, 2013.

A prominent Asian Art Collector.

Philip Moore

Born Mao Wen-cee 毛文奇^[1]. b. September 5, 1915, Shanghai – d. 2004, Hong Kong. MBBS (HK) December 20, 1938. FRCS (Edin.) 1947.

HONG KONG. Registered to practice January 26, 1939 through EOP. Hong Kong Univ., resident, Queen Mary Hospital, later Kowloon Hospital 1950-1955. Founding Member, Society of Anesthetists of Hong Kong. President, HKCMA 1960-62. Private practitioner 1955, retired 1980s. Address: c/o Dr. B. Chu, G/F, #9 Dragon Terrace 1939-EOP.

Soon after graduating from HKU, he joined the Chinese Red Cross Relief Corps and went to China to work in the war zones, returning to Hong Kong after the city has fallen to the Japanese. Altogether Mao was with the Red Cross for 6 years (1939-1945).

s/o [s.n.] (Chinese doctor practiced in Hawaii [n.d.]) and [s.n.] (art student in Japan [n.d.]).
m. Barbara Chu 1940; leading gynecologist in Hong Kong; examiner for gynecology in HKU.

[Mao had a profound interest in Aisan art and has beccome a  prominent collector as well as a scholar in that field. His enthusiasm was clearly manifested by his involvement in the leading organizations promoting Asian art and history: member, Oriental Ceramic Society in London (since 1965); founding President, Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong (1974-1977), ; Honorary Advisor, Hong Kong Museum of Art (1974-2004); Chairman, Min Chiu Society 敏求精舍(1969-1971, 1974-1975); Founder and first Chairman (1980-1997), Chairman emeritus (since 1997), East Asian History of Science Foundation 香港東亞科學史基金會.]

[1] When attending an English public school in Shanghai, Mao anglicized his surname to Moore.

Mok Tai-tim (1924-EOP)

updated August 12, 2013

MBBS (HK) December 1923. Registered to practice Hong Kong January 18, 1924 through EOP. Ho Miu Ling Hospital 1924. Private practitioner, net.1924, address: #40 Des Voeux Road Central 1941. Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, HKCMA 1925.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 18, 1924, Notice #30; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Lien Tsoong-kya 連忠介 (1937-EOP)

updated on September 8, 2013.

MBBS (HK) May 17, 1932. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 31, 1932 through EOP. Queen Mary Hospital 1941. Assistant in Surgery, HKU 1933-38. Vice President, HKCMA 1937.

Selected bibliography: Evans , Dafydd Emrys, Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 2, 1932, Notice #358; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Li Tsoo-yiu 李祖佑 (1924-d.1968)

updated September 8, 2013.

d.1968, Hong Kong. MBBS (HK) 1924. Government Civil Hospital 1924. Registered to practice Hong Kong August 21, 1924 through EOP. Private practitioner aft.1924-EOP. Assistant, Department of Medicine, HKU 1927-32. President, HKCMA 1932. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948-68, deceased, address: China Building 1941, 1948.

Selected bibliography: Evans , Dafydd Emrys, Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987. The Hong Kong Government August 21, 1924, Notice #480; May 9, 1941, Notice #558. 《香港年鑑》香港：華僑日報 (Hong Kong Year Book)。

Li Kuang-yu (1927-EOP)

updated on August 8, 2013.

MBBS (HK) 1927. Registered to practice Hong Kong June 24, 1927 through EOP. Government Civil Hospital 1927. Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, HKCMA 1928, 1932.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 24, 1927, Notice #384; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Hunter Hoahing, Martha 何顯 (1928-EOP)

updated on August 5, 2013.

Probably born in British Guiana (ca.1890); later moved to Singapore; LRCS, Edinburgh (1916); LMS, Glasgow (1916); practiced in Singapore in the 1920s; registered to practice in Hong Kong on April 14, 1928 and continued until 1941, 14 years in total; Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of HKCMA (1933); address in Hong Kong: St. George Hotel, Kennedy Road (1928).
Sister of Rachel Hunter Hoahing, who married Singapore doctor Wee Hiap Tock in 1922.

Selected bibliography: British Guiana Colonists Index “A” [internet]. The British Medical Journal, April 19, 1913, Public Health. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, April 20, #214; May 9, 1941, #558.

Chan Shing-chu 陳聖柱 (1932-1948+)

updated April 1, 2014.

Ophthalmologist.

MBBS (HK) December 18, 1931. Registered to practice Hong Kong January 6, 1932 through EOP. Private practitioner, address: #229, Nathan Road, Kowloon 1941. Hon. Secretary & Treasurer, HKCMA 1932. Residence: #4 Landale Street 1932.

POST 1941 activities. China ca.1942. Superintendent, Methodist Hospital, Fatshan 佛山市循道醫院 ca.1942-ca.1946. Hong Kong [n.d.]. Listed in the 1948 Hong Kong Year Book as an active medical practitioner. Listed in the 1948 member roster of HKCMA. Address 1948: 2/F, Pedder Building, Tel: 22541. Chairman, Hong Kong Ophthalmological Society (unspecified years between 1955 and 1967). Founding President, Wa Ying College Alumni Association, Hong Kong 香港華英中學校友會 1962.

Selected bibliography: The Bulletin of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1948, p.50. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 8, 1932, Notice #17; May 9, 1941, Notice #558. Hong Kong Ophthalmological Society [internet]. 香港年鑑, 香港: 華僑日報  (Hong Kong Year Book). 佛山市第一人民醫院 [internet].

Chan Ping-in 陳炳賢 (1933-1984+)

updated April 1, 2014.

MBBS (HK) January 2, 1930. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 5, 1933. Nethersole Hospital 1933. Private practitioner aft.1933-EOP, address: 3/F, China Building 1948. Honorary Secretary & Treasurer, HKCMA 1936. Residence: G/F,  #13 Village Road 1941.

POST 1941 activities. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, presumed in Hong Kong; status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948. Listed in the 1948 member roster of HKCMA. Address 1948: 3/F, China Building, Tel: 32772.

Selected bibliography: The Bulletin of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1948, p.50. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 5, 1933, Notice #317; May 9, 1941, Notice #558. 《香港年鑑》香港：華僑日報 (Hong Kong Year Book)。

Chan, H.C. (1940)

updated April 1, 2014.

Honorary Secretary & Treasurer, HKCMA 1940 and 1941. Medical Advisory Board to the Governor.

POST 1941 activities. Listed in the 1948 member roster of HKCMA. Address 1948: 4/F, Bank of Canton Building, Tel: 31040.

Selected bibliography: The Bulletin of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1948, p.50.

Au Sz-cham 區斯湛 (1905-EOP)

updated April 1, 2014.

Hong Kong nlt.1900. LMSH 1905.

HONG KONG nlt.1900. Authorized to practice July 8, 1908^[1]. Private practitioner 1908-EOP, address: Grampian Road 嘉林邊道, Kowloon 1941. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1908-EOP. Vice President, HKCMA 1925.

POST 1941 activities. Japanese occupation, probably in Hong Kong; status of practice unknown. Listed in the 1948 member roster of HKCMA. Address 1948: # 20 Grampian Road 嘉林邊道, Kowloon, Tel: 56289.

[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.

[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: The Bulletin of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1948, p.50. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 10, 1908, Notice #482; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.