Jackson, Robert Best (1930-1938)

updated March 7, 2014.

MD, Bch, DPH (Dubl.). Federated Malay States Medical Service [n.d.]-1930. Hong Kong 1930-38; whereabouts after Hong Kong unknown. Honor: OBE 1938. Address given in 1931: 28, The Grove, Coulsdon, Surrey.

HONG KONG 1930. Government doctor 1930-38, Government Malariologist April 24, 1930; Health Officer July 2, 1937; retired September 13, 1938.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 9, 1938, #451; July 2, 1937, #454. Hong Kong Government, Medical and Sanitary Report for the Year 1930, 1938. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Medical Department for the Year 1937. The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, October 20, 1931, p.7.

Josling, Charles Langford (1904-1906)

updated November 2, 2013.

b. January 7, 1862, London – d. March 12, 1924, Hastings. Trained at Charing-Cross Hospital; MRCS, LSA 1883; LRCP (Lond.) 1885. Military doctor. AMD, Surgeon 1885; Surgeon Captain. RAMC, Surgeon Captain May 30, 1885; Major May 30, 1897; Hong Kong ntl.1904-net.1906, Acting Principal Medical Officer, Hong Kong and China 1904;  Lieutenant Colonel May 30, 1905; retired May 4, 1910; the Great War, recalled to active service August 1914, Medical Officer In-Charge of Abancourt Hospital 1918. Associated with Junior United Service Club, Charles Street, St. Jame's, London.

HONG KONG nlt.1904. Acting Member, Sanitary Board (vice William Edward Webb) August 16, 1904, and April 15, 1905; (vice C.S. Sparkes) July 30, 1906. Last record found ex Hong Kong 1906.

s/o John James Stephen Josling, Royal Navy Captain, and Louisa Ellen Langford, d/o Edward Langford; m. St. Pancras, Middlesex July 28, 1857. Siblings: 1. Edward Henry Matson Josling, b. November 20, 1860.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, April 12, 1924, p.694. Daniel Morgan's Genealogy Pages › Stanbridge and Related Families [internet]. Gen Forum email posted by Clinton Mann November 19, 2010 [internet]. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, August 19, 1904, #577; April 20, 1905, #226; 1906, August 3, `1906#646). The London Gazette, May 16, 1924, p.3997.

[Proactive research ended November 2, 2013.]

Justi, Carol (1904-1923)

updated August 26, 2013.

MD, Marburg Univ., Germany October 21, 1897. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 6, 1904. Private practitioner, named partner of Drs. Muller and Justi 1904, address: #16 Queen's Road. Removed from the Medical Register by the government on February 15, 1923 [1]. Residence: Fairview, #3 Robinson Road.

m. Helene [s.n.]

[1] The following doctors were removed from the Medical Registered by the government in February 1923 on the ground that they had not practiced for more than three months during the five year immediately preceding the enactment of the Medical Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1923; and they were: Karl Hoch, Carol Justi, Oskar Muller, Kurt Otto Herman Walther and Theodor van Wesel, all German nationals.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 6, 1904, Notice #341; March 2, 1923, Notice #88.

Jordan, Gregory Paul (1885-1921)

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Gregory P. Jordan

Jordan, Gregory Paul (1885-1921)
(updated August 27, 2013) b. February 6, 1858, Calcutta – d. December 4, 1921, London. Edinburgh Univ., MB August 2, 1880; CM October 21, 1884. Studied in Vienna and Paris, and at St. Thomas’s Hospital. Registered to practice Hong Kong June 6, 1885. Private practitioner, name partner, Drs. Adams and Jordan 1885-89+, address: Pedder Street 1885-89 (the practice would evolve into Drs. Anderson & Partners); principal partner, Drs. Jordan, Forsyth, Grove & Aubrey 1921-24+, address: Alexandra Building 1921-24+. HKGov., Provisional Health Officer of the Port and Inspector of Immigrants (vice William Stanley Adams, resigned) May 1, 1888; Surgeon-Superintendent of Police ca.1914-18. Consulting Surgeon, Alice Memorial Hospital. HKBMA, co-founder and inaugural Secretary September 1886. HKCMC, member of Founding Committee 1887; lecturer in Eye Diseases 1903-12; head of Surgical Department 1889-96. HKU, first Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1913-21; first professor, Tropical Medicine 1915-21; acting Chancellor 1918-12; life member of University Court since 1911; University Senate 1912. Freemasony: first Grand Master, District Grand Lodge, Hong Kong and South China November 3, 1904 - 1921. Club: Hong Kong Club. Residence: #36 Caine Road 1885-1888+. Left Hong Kong for England due to ill-health 1921. Honor: Hon.LLD, HKU 1921; naming of Jordan Road in Kowloon [1].
[Jordan was the nephew of Paul Chater, Hong Kong’s first property tycoon.]
[1] Six Street and Gascoigne Road South was renamed Jordan Road on March 19, 1909.  Gascoigne Road 加士居道 is named after Major-General William Julius  Gascoigne, Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong and Hong Kong's last Lieutenant Governor 1898-1902.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 6, 1885, Notice; March 19, 1909, Notice #184; June 2, 1911, Appt. #163. Mellor, Bernard, Lugard in Hong Kong: Empire, Education and A Governor at Work, 1907-1912, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1992.

[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.

Jones, Richard (1840s)

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Research in progress.

Jones, Edward Evan (1906-1919)

updated November 29, 2013.

Dentist.

DDS (Penn.) 1906. Hong Kong 1906.

HONG KONG 1906. Private practitioner, Dr. Joseph Whittlesey Noble 1906-19. Registered dental surgeon 1914-19, one of the first eight dentists registered with the government following the regulation of the practice of dentistry on May 7, 1914 [1].

[A number of dentistry graduates of the University of Pennsylvania practiced in Hong Kong within this period: Joseph Whittlesey Noble, Penn. 1883, Hong Kong 1887, Drs. Poate and Noble, later his own practice. John Moore Crago, Penn. 1900, Hong Kong 1901, Dr. Joseph Whittlesey Noble. Leidy Roger Reel, Penn. 1900, Hong Kong ca.1900, Dr. Joseph Whittlesey Noble. Frederick Hoard Kew, Penn.1903, Hong Kong , Dr. Joseph Whittlesey Noble, later Drs. Kew Brothers. Emerson G. Curry, Penn. 1904, Hong Kong , Dr. Joseph Whittlesey Noble. George T. Lemis, Penn. 1905, Hong Kong , Drs. Kew Brothers. Edward Evan Jones, Penn. 1906, Hong Kong 1906.]

[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 Journal, September 24, 1915, #438; May 30, 1919, #250. Penn Dental Journal, November 1906, p.36.

Johnson, John Taylor Connell (1912)

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FRCS; Principal Civil Medical Officer from 1912 to 1924. Chairman, Dental Board 1914.

[1] Inaugural members of the Dental Board July 17, 1914: John Taylor Connell Johnson (PCMO, ex-official, chairman), George Ernest Aubrey, Frederic Osmund Stedman, Frederick Hoard Kew, Joseph Whittlesey Noble.

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences Society, Plague, Sars, and the Story of Medicine in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006, p.338.

Jeu Hawk 趙學 (1908)

updated December 20, 2013.

MD (Oregon). Hong Kong nlt.1908.

HONG KONG. Authorized to practice July 8, 1908 [1]. House surgeon, Tung Wah Hospital 1908. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1908.

[1] Doctors who lacked the academic qualifications recognized by the Medical Board (essentially the General Medical Council in UK) to qualify to register were authorized to practice as private practitioners in Hong Kong as "exempted persons" effective July 8, 1908 [a]. They were however 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, Chung Boon-chor 鍾本初, a graduate of Tientsin Chinese Government College was engaged as a house surgeon of the Alice Memorial Hospital 1890-95, and the first Medical Superintendent 掌院 of Tung Wah Hospital 1896-1903.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 10, 1908, Notice #482.

Jap Boon-koey 葉文貴 (1932)

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MBBS, HKU (January 5, 1931); registered to practice in Hong Kong on May 4, 1932; address in Hong Kong: #16 Robinson Road (1932).

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 6, 1932, Notice #282.

James, M.E.R. (1890s)

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Research in progress.

Jackson, Charles Anthony (1941-EOP)

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MRCS, England (1939); LRCP, London (1939); MBBS, London Univ. (1939); registered to practice in Hong Kong on October 18, 1941; HMS Tamar, Royal Naval Dockyard (1941).

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, October 24, 1941, Notice #1268.