Valentine, Douglas James (1920-1945)

updated November 17, 2013.

b.1892, Shanghai – d.1980, Isle of Man. MC, MBBS (Lond.) 1911; MRCS (Eng.); LRCP (Lond.); DPH; DTMH (Eng.). Hong Kong nlt.1920-1945, government doctor. Liverpool 1945. Honor: MC; King's Silver Jubilee Medal 1935; King's Coronation Medal 1937; CBE 1946 (for service during internment).

HONG KONG nlt.1920. Government doctor 1920-45. Medical Officer In-Charge, Victoria Gaol Hospital January 25, 1920 (vice William James Woodman). Visiting Medical Officer, Tung Wah Hospital 1920 Medical Officer In-Charge, Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases 1921. Medical Officer In-Charge, Government Civil Hospital [n.d.] - May 6, 1928. Medical Officer In-Charge , Victoria General and Maternity Hospital 1931. Acting Director of Medical and Sanitary Services October 29, 1931 Acting Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, April 22, 1931; (vice William Browlow Ashe Moore, absence on leave) March 5, 1932; March 23, 1933; January 29, 1935 – [n.d.]; (vice W.B.A. Moore, absence on leave) on two occasions: November 25, 1935 – [n.d.], December 21, 1935 – [n.d.]; January 1936 – [n.d.]; February 22, 1936 – [n.d.]. Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths March 1, 1932 – [n.d.]; January 29, 1935 – [n.d.]. Deputy Director of Medical Services October 21, 1936- 1938. Acting Director of Medical Services June 11, 1937 - September 1937. Temporary Member (Official), Legislative Council June 11, – September 1937. Acting Member, Nurses Board (vice William Innes Gerrard, absence on leave) March 16, 1934. Corps Surgeon, St. John Ambulance. Lecturer in Therapeutics 1926-30, 1935-36; Mental Diseases 1941, HKU. JP (official) February 12, 1925 – EOP. Defense Reserve, Key-Posts Group January 25, 1940. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, interned, Stanley Camp January 1942 – August 1945; camp medical officer May 2, 1943 – August 1945, appointed by Franklin Gimson, Colonial Secretary (also interned at Stanley Camp); repatriation, Liverpool 1945.

s/o James Valentine [1], b.1855-d.1940, and Edith Elizabeth Sharp, b.1866-d.1945. Siblings: 1. Florence Mary Valentine, b.1893-d.1979; 2. Robert Keith Valentine, b.1897-d.1984 and; 3. Arthur Jone Milne (Jock) Valentine, b.1906-d.1992.
m. Nina Emily Williams [2], b.1895-d.1966, Hong Kong June 26, 1929; d/o H.T. Williams, of Whitstable, Kent. Had issue: 1. Stuart Douglas Valentine, b.1932-d.2001.

[1] James Valentine was probably the Shanghai sub-manager of London based trading firm, Holliday, Wise & Co.

[2] Nina Emily Valentine commanded the Auxiliary Nursing Service.

Selected bibliography: Emerson, Geoffrey Charles, Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945: Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008, p.98. Evans, Dafydd Emrys, Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987, p.271. Hong Kong Government, Medical Report for the Year 1921, p17. Hong Kong Government, Medical and Sanitary Report for the Year 1920; 1931, p.66. The Hong Kong Government Gazette: 1925, February 13, 1925, #78; May 1, 1931, #259; October 30, 1931, #690; 1932, March 4, 1932, #140; March 18, 1932, #170; March 24, 1933, #187; April 27, 1934, #330; January 25, 1935, #61 and #64; May 6, 1935, #362; November 22, 1935, #900; December 20, 1935, #988; January 10, 1936, #31; February 21, 1936,  #179; October 9, 1936, #815; May 14, 1937, #342; June 11, 1937, #401 and  #430; October 1, 1937, #689; 1940, January 26, 1940 #105; April 12, 1940, #408; May 2, 1941, #521. 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.188. Mundia [internet]. The Straits Times, June 26, 1929, p.10. Supplement to the London Gazette, June 13, 1946, p.2794.

[Proactive research ended October 28, 2013.]

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, George Harold 譚嘉士 (1912-EOP)

updated December 21, 2013

Hong Kong's First Locally Trained MD.

Hong Kong nlt.1907. FRCS 1961 (first elected without examination, and first presentation ceremony took place outside the College premises in London).

HONG KONG. Diocesan Boys’ School; LMSHK 1912 [1] (one of the last licentiate of HKCMC); MBBS May 30, 1914 [2] (the only medical graduate in 1914), MD 1920 (HK) (first HKU MD graduate). House Surgeon, Nethersole and Ho Miu Ling Hospitals 1912. Resident surgeon, Tung Wah Hospital 1912. Registered to practice Hong Kong August 7, 1914 through EOP. Assistant Medical Officer, Government Civil Hospital and Mental Hospital 1928. Medical Officer, Mental Hospital and Tsan Yuk Hospital 1937. Superintendent designated, Tung Wah Hospital 1937-38, in charge of the hospital during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong 1941-45. Medical Officer, Queen Mary Hospital. Acting Director of Medical Services 1947-49 (first Chinese appointed to the position). Lecturer in Pharmacology, Vaccination and Anesthetics 1915-18, 1936-37, Obstetrics 1919-21 Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 1922, Ophthalmology 1925, Mental Diseases 1938, HKU. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1912-14. Honor: King's Silver Jubilee Medal 1935; MBE June 12, 1941; OBE 1946; Hon LLD, HKU 1961.

m. [s.n.]. Had issues: 1. Osler Thomas; 2. Huxley Thomas; 3. Kelvin Thomas; 4. Barclay Thomas.

[Thomas was Chinese by descent but was given a British name when he attended the Diocesan Boys School.]

[No one should miss this anecdote, told by Thomas himself, about the MBBS degree that he received from HKU in 1914 (which I've found from the book "The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho Kai"):

Three licentiates of the College of Medicine including me were admitted as advanced students eligible to sit for the degree of MBBS after a period of tow years of further study at the University. At the end of the prescribed two years, seven candidates presented themselves for the Final Degree Examinations. Lavish preparations, including a banquet, had been made for the first degree conferring ceremony in which the Chancellor and the Vic-Chancellor would officiate; but alas!, it appeared that none of the seven aspirants had been found worthy of the degree. The University authorities, faced with an awkward situation, apparently decided to produce one graduate for the ceremony according to plan. I believe they selected me on the mistaken assumption that I, who had already been holding the Government post of Resident Medical Officer to the Tung Wah Hospital since 1912, would probably be the one calculated to do the least harm to the community. I firmly believe that this is the true story how I, in May, 1914, obtained the coveted but undeserved distinction of being the first graduate of Hong Kong University.]

[1] 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.

[2] HKU had at the time but a single faculty of Medicine.

Selected bibliography: Choa, G.H., The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho Kai, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1981, pp.75-76. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, August 7, 1914, #301; May 6, 1935, #362; May 9, 1941, #558. Hutcheon, Robin, Bedside Manner: Hospital and Health Care in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1999, pp.16-17. Supplement to the London Gazette, June 12, 1941, p.3297.

temp. notes:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wpob5oHe7kIC&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305&dq=dr+g+h+thomas+hong+kong+1941&source=bl&ots=q-rfExemZY&sig=yhTAD2CyqgYYIo_UjP2E5Ooen1g&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2Cu1UtOdLMj_iAeU7IGgCg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=dr%20g%20h%20thomas%20hong%20kong%201941&f=false p.303

Teh Lean-swee 鄭連瑞 (1916)

updated

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.

McKenny, Charles William (1912)

updated June 30, 2013

b. February 21, 1885. BS, MD, Trinity College, Ireland. Resident surgeon, Meath Hospital, Dublin 1911. Hong Kong 1912. Hong Kong Government, Medical Officer, Victoria Gaol 1912; Acting Superintendent, Victoria Hospital (vice John Taylor Connell Johnson) December 14, 1918 - January 8, 1919; Acting Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital; Visiting Medical Officer, Tung Wah Hospital; Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer (vice J.T.C. Johnson) February 8, 1919, and July 7, 1923. Supernumerary Surgeon-Lieutenant, HKVDC August 5, 1914. JP (official) October 5, 1917 - 1927. HKU, Lecturer in Clinical Medicine 1913-27, Anesthetics 1919-20, Anesthetist to the Surgical Clinic 1920-25, Clinical Obstetrics 1923-25, Radiology and Radio-Therapeutics 1927; tutor in the Out-Patients Department 1921-22; Senate 1918-20.

s/o James and Kate McKenny [1].

[1] James McKenny, veterinary surgeon; address: #116 Stephens Green Street, Clonliffe, Dublin 1885.

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, August 7, 1914, Appt. #299; October 5, 1917, Appt. #446; February 21, 1919, Appt. #81; July 13, 1923, Appt. #314; June 10, 1927, Notice #349. / Irish Genealogy › Search Church Records › Area – Dublin [internet]. / Medical and Sanitary Reports for the Year  1918, Hong Kong Government. / The National Archives of Ireland › 1911 census [internet]. / Proceedings of Meeting, Hong Kong Legislative Council, January 30, 1919. / Ure, Gavin, Governors, Politics and the Colonial Office: Public Policy in Hong Kong, 1918-58, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012.

Lam Yun-hae 林閏羲 (1910-EOP)

updated December 17, 2013.

Hong Kong nlt.1905. 

HONG KONG. LMSHK 1910. Assistant Resident Medical Officer, Tung Wah Hospital 1910. Authorized to practice August 26, 1910. Private practitioner 1910-EOP, address #9 Lung Chow Ching, Kowloon City 1941. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1910-EOP.

[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.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, August 26, 1910, #264; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Kelly, P.J. (1900s)

updated November 4, 2013

Hong Kong nlt.1910-1912. Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1912. Teaching post, Colombo Medical College.

Hong Kong nlt. 1910. Lecturer in Clinic Surgery, HKCMC [n.d.]. Government doctor. Medical Officer In-Charge, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Kennedy Town, and Victoria Gaol June 23, 1910 – 1911. Visiting Medical Officer, Tung Wah Hospital 1911-12.

Selected bibliography: Evans, Dafydd Emrys (Ed.), Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987. Hong Kong Government, Medical and Sanitary Reports for the Year 1910, 1911. The Hong Kong Telegraph, March 7, 1912, p.7, Presentation to Dr. Kelly.

[Proactive research ended November 4, 2013.]

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.

Ho Ko-tsun 何高俊 (1902-EOP)

updated January 1, 2014.

Ho Ko-tsun. Credit: Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China

Hong Kong born. Canton 1911-15. Deputy Director of Public Health, Canton 1911. Hong Kong ca.1916. Honor: OBE June 1949.

HONG KONG. Queen's college 皇仁書院, recipient of Belilios Award; LMSHK 1902. Acting house surgeon, Tung Wah Hospital 1901-02. Assistant to the Government Bacteriologist, William Hunter, October 14, 1902-1903 [1].  Resident surgeon, Nethersole and Ho Miu Ling Hospitals 1903-06. Medical Officer, Chinese Public Dispensary, East Distrcit (located in Wanchai). Public Vaccinator October 9, 1901. Authorized to practice (as a private practitioner) July 8, 1908 [2]. Private practitioner, 1908-EOP, address: 1/F., #55 Queen's Road Central 1941. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1908-EOP. Lecturer, Osteology and Surgery, HKCMC. Founding President and lecturer in Hygiene, Tai Yuk School 體育學校 (Hollywood Road) 1908. Inaugural Chairman, Yeung Wo Nursing Home (forerunner of Hong Kong Sanitarium) 1922. Member, Guangdong Medical Gongjinhui 1910 [3]. Club: Hong Kong Chinese Swimming Association 香港華人游泳會, founding member 1910.

b. August 10, 1878, Hong Kong - d. June 6, 1953, Hong Kong. Protestant.
m. [s.n.] Ma. Had issues: 1.Ho Fat-chung 何法中 (d.infancy, or neonatal death); 2. Ho Kin-chung 何健中 (d.infancy, or neonatal death); 3. Ho Chung-chung 何中中 (Ph.D.; Founder and Principal, True Light Middle School of Hong Kong 香港真光中學 1946; MBE; JP); 4. Ho Yuk-chung 何育中; 5. Ho Mei-chung 何尾中.

Publications: A Treatise on First Aid to the Wounded; Simple Remedies in varous Emergencies; 廣東省政府取締醫務之原因 (Reasons why Guangdong Government Banned Medical Services), China Medical Journal, March 1913 (all three published in Chinese).

[1] Three Chinese, all holders of LMSHK, were appointed as Assistant to the Government Bacteriologist. They were: Chan Fai-kwong, Ho Ko-tsun 何高俊, Lee Yin-sze 李賢士. This was the first instance Chinese were appointed; the positions were previously held by Japanese.
[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.

[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.

The Guangdong Medical Gongjinhui held a welcome party to honor a visit to Canton by Sun Yat-sen in May 1912. Ho sat on the front row, first right. Credit: Yangcheng Evening News Digital Media.

[3] Ho was listed in 1910 as an active member, Guangdong Medical Gongjinhui 廣東醫學共進會, the medical branch of a republican movement group founded in Tokyo in 1905.

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong Government, Report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer for the Year 1902. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, October 12, 1901, #595; May 9, 1941, Notice #558. Wright, Arnold, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China, London: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Co., Ltd., 1908, p.180.

Chung Boon-chor 鍾本初 (1890)

updated September 1, 2013

Alias Chung King-ue 鍾景裕; Chung King-ü 鍾景儒. d. 1908, Hong Kong. Graduate of Tientsin Chinese Government College 天津西醫學堂 [1]. Hong Kong nlt.1890. The first Chinese [sic] House Surgeon, Alice Memorial Hospital 1890-95. Public Vaccinator October 20, 1890. The first Medical Superintendent 掌院, Tung Wah Hospital 1896-1903 [2].

Eurasian, Chinese father and American mother.

[1] The college was run by John Kenneth Mackenzie.
[2] The chief purpose of appointing Chung, a half-Chinese practitioner of Western medicine, was to offer Western medicine as an option to patients at the Tung Wah Hospital, which until then only offered traditional Chinese treatments. It wasn’t until three years after Chung’s appointment that Western medicine as well as surgery began to be accepted. Chung was paid HK$150 a month. He was not permitted to run a private practice on the side, which was not uncommon at that time.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, October 25, 1890, Notice #441.

Chiu Chu-san 趙柱臣 (1922-EOP)

updated August 3, 2013

MBBS (HK) 1922. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 5, 1922 through EOP. Private hospital, Tung Wah Hospital 1922. Engaged by HKU 1941.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 5, 1922, Notice #203; May 9, 1941, Notice #558; May 9, 1941, Notice #558..

Cheong Chee-hai 鐘志海 (1916)

updated

The First Doctor whose Chinese Name Appeared in the Registration Notice.

MBBS (HK) May 30, 1916. Registered to practice Hong Kong July 21, 1916. Private hospital, Tung Wah Hospital 1916.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 21, 1916, Notice #320.

Chau Sik-nin 周錫年 (1924-1955)

Chau Sik-nin escorting Princes Alexandra

updated September 6, 2013

Otolaryngologist-Turned-Banker.

b. April 13, 1903, Hong Kong – d. November 30, 1985, Hong Kong. St. Stephen College, Hong Kong 1918. MBBS (HK) 1923; DLO 1925; DOMS 1926. Registered to practice Hong Kong January 30, 1924 through EOP. Private practitioner, 1927-30, 37-EOP, address: 1/F, China Building 1941; first Chinese Otolaryngologist to practice in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Government, Ophthalmologist, Government Civil Hospital 1930-36. Part-time Lecturer in Ophthalmology, HKU 1930-35. Medical Board, 1936-EOP; Pres. 1936-37. Sanitary Board 1936-EOP. Chm., Po Leung Kuk 1941-44. JP (unoff.) May 19, 1939 - 1985. Residence: #1 Hing Hon Road 1924. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948. HKU Interim Committee 1946-47. Legislative Council, member 1947-62; Senior Member 1953-59. Executive Council, member 1948-62; Senior Member 1959-62. Inaugural Chairman, Hong Kong Tuberculosis Association 1948-63. Founder, Hong Kong Chinese Bank 香港華人銀行 1955 [1]. Inaugural Chairman, Federation of Hong Kong Industries 1960-66. Inaugural Chairman, Hong Kong Trade Development Council 1966-70. Member, General Committee, Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce 1966-74. Honorary Advisor, Chinese General Chamber of Commerce. Permanent Advisor of Tung Wah Hospitals. Director, more than 30 companies in Hong Kong and other areas in the Asia Pacific. Honor: Coronation Medal 1937; Defense Medal 1945; CBE 1950; Kt 1960; Hon LLD, HKU 1961; Silver Jubilee Medal 1977; The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon 瑞寶中綬章 (Japan) 1969. Hon. escort of Princess Alexandra, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, during her Hong Kong visit 1961.

Christian. fa/o flamboyant barrister and socialite Chau Kai-pong 周啟邦, b.1934-d.2010. First cousin of Chau Tsun-Nin 周埈年; Senior Member, Legislative and Executive Councils.

[1] The Hong Kong Chinese Bank was acquired by CITIC Ka Wah Bank in 2002 and ceased to exist thenceforth.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, February 1, 1924, Notice #57; May 9, 1941, Notice #558..