Zia I-ding 謝一亭 (1938-EOP)

updated August 16, 2013

MBBS (HK) May 1922. Registered to practice Hong Kong November 3, 1938. Private hospital, Tung Wah Eastern Hospital 1938. Private practitioner aft.1938-EOP, address: 2/F, #56 Nathan Road, Kowloon 1941.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, November 4, 1938, Notice #860; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Young, Peter F.H. (1843)

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Surgeon in the East India Company, surgeon, Nemesis (iron steamship). Hong Kong, nlt.1843. Private hospital, Doctor-in-Charge, Hong Kong Seamen's Hospital 1843-46. Hong Kong Government, Colonial Surgeon 1846-47 [1].

Related to James Young.

[1] At the request of John Francis Davis, the 2nd governor, Young gave up his private practice and took up the office of Colonial Surgeon, which was vacated following the death of Francis Dill. He was the third locally recruited Colonial Surgeon. What Davis and Young didn't know was that the Home Government had decreed that the Colonial Surgeon's post should be filled by a London appointee. Young had to step down ten months after he was appointed to make way for William Morrison who arrived Hong Kong in mid 1847 as London’s appointee to take over his job.

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 Loy-kung 胡來貢 (1919)

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MBBS (HK) June 10, 1919. Registered to practice Hong Kong July 18, 1919. Private hospital, Kwong Wah Hospital, Yaumati 1919.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 18,1919, Notice #332.

Wong Fun 黃寬 (1860)

updated August 29, 2013

First Chinese to Study Abroad (in a University)

Name variations: Kuan Huang, Wong Foon. Alias: Huang Jiechen 黃傑臣, Huang Chuoqing 黃綽卿. b.1929, Xiangshan in Guangdong 廣東香山縣. MB 1855; MD 1857 (Edin.). Hong Kong nlt.1860. Private hospital, LMS Hospital. Hong Kong Government., Acting Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital (vice John Ivor Murray absence on leave) December 15, 1860.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, December 22, 1860, Notice #143.

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.

Wong Kwok-kun 黃國權 (1917-1948+)

updated August 17, 2013

MBBS (HK) June 7, 1917. Registered to practice Hong Kong June 22, 1917. Private hospital, Ho Miu Ling Hospital 1917; Kwong Wah Hospital 1921. Private practitioner aft.1921-EOP, address: #337 Nathan Road, Kowloon 1941. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948 at the pre-war address.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 22, 1917, Notice #29; May 9, 1941, Notice #5580. 《香港年鑑》香港：華僑日報  (Hong Kong Year Book)。

Wan Tun-mo 尹端模 (1897-1927)

updated March 28, 2014.

Wan Man-kai. Credit: Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China

The inaugural Chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association.

b. October 10, 1869, Hong Kong -d.1927, Hong Kong. Alias Wan Man-kai 尹文楷. Hong Kong [n.d.]. Tientsin (Tianjin) 1884. Tientsin Chinese Government College 天津西醫學堂^[1] 1884-89. Surgeon, Imperial Chinese Navy 1890. Assistant Professor, Tientsin Chinese Government College. Canton (Guangzhou) [n.d.]. Lecturer, Medical School, Pok Tsai Hospital 博濟醫學堂^[2]. China-Western Dispensary 廣州冼基東西藥局 1893^[3]. Hong Kong 1897.

HONG KONG. Government Central School [n.d.]. Staff surgeon, Nethersole Hospital 1897. Staff surgeon, Alice Memorial Hospital (vice U I-kai 胡爾楷, deceased) 1898. Private practitioner 1900. Public Vaccinator November 16, 1897. Authorized to practice February 5, 1915^[4]. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1915. Tutor in Medicine, Physiology and Surgery, HKCMC.  Inaugural President, HKCMA 1920-22. Director, inaugural board of Yeung Wo Nursing Home 1922. Founder and Chairman of the Board, Great Light Newspaper 1900s^[5]. Managing Committee, Po Leung Kuk 1921. Board of Education 1922-27. JP (Non-official) 1923-27. University Court, Hong Kong Univ. 1926 (three year term). Chairman, Chinese Club 華商會所 1900-1927.

s/o Wan Wei-tsing 尹維清 (London Missionary Society minister, Bolou (Boluo) County, Kwangtung (Guangdong) 廣東省博羅縣).
m. [s.n.] (d/o Au Fung-chi 區鳳墀)^[6].

Publications: 病理撮要, 胎產撮要, 兒科撮要, 病症名目, 體質窮源, 醫理略述 [I will have these translated some other times. Some are translated works, but I don't know which ones.]

[1] Tientsin Chinese Government College opened in 1881 under the patronage of Li Hongzhang 李鴻章.

[2] Pok Tsai Hospital was established by medical missionary John Kerr. Sun Yat-sen attended the medical school attached to the hospital in 1886, before moving to Hong Kong and matriculated at the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese.

[3] The China-Western Dispensary in Sinkay, Canton was established by Sun Yat-sen towards end of 1893. It is unknown whether or not Wan was a partner in Sun's dispensary, or the other way around. In November 1894, Sun gave up medicine and became a full time revolutionist. The close friendship between Wan and Sun went back a long way - they were classmate in the Government Central School in Hong Kong.

[4] Wan was the first Chinese trained doctor to be authorized to practice in Hong Kong. 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". Wan was referred to as Doctor Wan in government documents since 1926.

[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.

[5] Great Light Newspaper 大光報 was a Christian newspaper; its contributor had included Sun Yat-sen.

[6] Several of his brothers-in-law were licentiates of HKCMC and practiced with him in Hong Kong.

Selected bibliography: Chinese Club, Hong Kong [internet]. Choa, Gerald Hugh, The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho Kai, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1981. Hardiman, David (Ed.), Healing Bodies, Saving Souls: Medical Missions in Asia and Africa, New York: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2006. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, November 20, 1897, #495; February 5, 1915, #58; June 9, 1922, #264; November 23, 1923, #5111; June 4, 1926, #311; December 17, 1926, #695; June 10, 1927, #349. Report of the Director of Education for the Year 1927. Report of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs for the Year 1921. Smith, Carl T., Chinese Christians Elites, Middlemen, and the Church in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press, 2005. Xu Guangqiu, American Doctors in Canton: Modernization in China 1835-1935, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Transaction Publishers, 2011.

Turner, Gladys Maude (1921)

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MBBS, Birmingham Univ. January 1916. Registered to practice Hong Kong February 4, 1912. Missionary. London Missionary Society, London Missionary Society Hospital in 1921.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, February 4, 1912, Notice #45.

To Ying-fan 杜應勳 (1899)

updated December 19, 2013

Coxion To

Alias To Coxion 杜國臣. Hong Kong nlt.1894.

HONG KONG. LMSHK 1899. House surgeon, Nethersole Hospital 1899-1908. House surgeon, Alice Memorial Hospital 1908-31 [1], concurrently owned and ran a pharmacy in Queen's Road. Authorized to practice June 17, 1936 - EOP [2]. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1908-EOP.

Siblings: 1. To Ying-kwan 杜應坤.
m. [s.n.]. Had issues: 1. son [s.n.].

[1] To's wife and son were also employed by the Alice Memorial Hospital.
[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 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, LMSHK 1893, was permitted to practice at the Alice Memorial Hospital 1893. To, himself, was engaged in the two LMS hospitals without the necessity of being registered.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 10, 1908, Notice #482; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Thomson, John Christopher (1889-1909)

updated August 19, 2013

A Devoted Teacher.

b. June 5, 1863, Lockerbie, Scotland. MA 1884, MB, CM August 1, 1888, MD 1892 (Edin.); CDTC 1904; DPH (Edin.) & (Glas.) 1904. London Missionary Society, medical missionary. Registered to practice in Hong Kong on January 18, 1889 through 1897. London Missionary Society Clinic, address: Po Yee Street, Sai Ying Pun 西營盤普義街 (working with William Young 楊威廉). Superintendent, Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals 1889. Resigned from London Missionary Society 1896. Hong Kong Government, Assistant Colonial Surgeon 1897; Medical Officer and Medical Officer of Health to the Kowloon extension 1898. Surgeon, Tung Wah Hospital 1909. HKCMC: Secretary 1891-94; Treasury and Secretary 1895-1909; Director of Studies 1895-1902; lecturer in Chemistry 1896-97, Chemistry and Physics 1898-1901, Clinical Medicine 1909, Clinical Surgery 1892, Diseases of Tropical Climates 1901-09, Fever 1908, Materia Medica and Therapeutics 1892-96, Physiology 1895-96, Surgery 1896-97. JP (official) 1898. President, HKBMA 1899. Left Hong Kong December 28, 1909 due to ill-health. Publication: Reports on Malaria and on Hong Kong Mosquitoes, Government Gazette. Club: Hong Kong Club.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 19, 1889; May 7, 1898, Notice #212. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Head of the Sanitary Department for the Year 1909. The Straits Times, October 19, 1909, p.6, Social and Personal.

Thomas, Alan Lloyd (1940-EOP)

  updated August 15, 2013

MBBS (Edin.) 1932. Registered medical practitioner Hong Kong May 10, 1940 through EOP. Alice Memorial Hospital 1940-EOP.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 10, 1940, Notice #536; May 9, 1941, Notice #558. 

Teh Lean-swee 鄭連瑞 (1916)

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MBBS (HK) December 1915. Registered to practice Hong Kong February 11, 1916. Tung Wah Hospital 1916.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, February 11, 1916, Notice #62.

Tang Yee-yuen (1927-EOP)

updated August 14, 2013

MBBS (HK) 1927. Registered to practice Hong Kong October 21, 1927 through EOP. Kwong Wah Hospital 1927. Private practitioner, aft.1927-EOP, address: #434 Nathan Road Kowloon 1941.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, October 21, 1927, Notice #604; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Struthers, Ernest Black (1913)

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MB, Toronto Univ. 1905. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 9, 1913. Alice Memorial Hospital 1913.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 9,1913, Notice.

Sanders, Charles William (1933)

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CM, MD (McGill) June 4, 1901; MSPSA August 20, 1906. Registered to practice Hong Kong February 3, 1933. Matilda Hospital 1933.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, February 3, 1933, Notice #76.

Por Peng-teik 傅秉德 (1940-EOP)

updated August 13, 2013

MBBS (HK) July 10, 1940. Registered to practice Hong Kong January 25, 1940 through EOP. Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital 1940. Tung Wah Eastern Hospital 1941.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 26, 1940, Notice #852 May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Phoon Seck-weng (1921-EOP)

updated August 13, 2013

MBBS (HK) December 1920 Registered to practice Hong Kong March 18, 1921 through EOP. Ho Miu Ling Hospital 1921. Residence: 1/F, #163 Johnston Road 1941.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, March 18, 1921, Notice #110; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Perkins, Eleanor Whitworth (1910)

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MDChB (Lond.) December 6, 1906. Missionary. London Missionary Society. Registered to practice Hong Kong December 16, 1910. Alice Memorial Hospital 1910.

m. Isaiah Edward Mitchell.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazett, December 16, 1910, Notice #386.

Pang Hok-ko 彭學高 (1930-1972)

updated August 17, 2013.

b.1900 Hong Kong - d.1974 Hong Kong. MBBS (HK) December 27, 1929. Registered to practice Hong Kong December 4, 1930. Tung Wah Eastern Hospital 1930. Private practitioner 1934-EOP. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948. address: 1/F, #335 Nathan Road, Kowloon 1948. President, HKMA 1952-53. Honor: naming of Rhenish Church Pang Hok Ko Memorial Collage 禮賢會彭學高紀念中學.

Had issues: 1. Pang Wing-fuk 彭永福 ,MBBS (HK) 1962; MRCP 1966; FRCP (Edin.); FHKA, Medicine. DTMH (Lpol.). 2. Pang Wing-luk 彭永祿 , MBBS (HK) 1966.

[1] Further research is required to ascertain the status of the practice during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, i.e. active, inactive, went underground, dormancy, etc.

[Dr. Pang Wing-fuk is my mother's physician.]

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, December 5, 1930, Notice #781; May 9, 1941, Notice #558. 《香港年鑑》香港：華僑日報 (Hong Kong Year Book)。