[ { "id": 319277, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "page_number": 281, "title": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "content_text": "# PARTICULARS RESPECTING FOLLOWING POLICE PENSIONERS\n\n| Name | Joined on | Length of Service | Age at time of Retirement | Cause of Retirement |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Goolab Singh | 6th April, 1868 | 10 years | 37 | After 10 years' service |\n| Sadoo Singh | \" | \" | 22 | \" |\n| Choor Singh | \" | \" | 73 | \" |\n| Henry Manskey | 2nd Sept., 1868 | | | |\n| Moolah Singh | 6th April, 1868 | 11 years | 33 | After 10 years' service |\n| Hokum Singh | 1st Sept., 1869 | 10 | 31 | Injured on duty |\n| Abdul Kader | 6th April, 1868 | 10 years | | |\n| Jewan Singh | \" | 19 years | | |\n| Amur Singh | \" | 10 months | | |\n| Robert Clare | 1st June, 1867 | 12 | 33 | After 10 years' service |\n| Malin Singh | 9th Jan., 1871 | 10 | 31 | \" |\n| Abdula Khan | 6th April, 1868 | 11 | | |\n| Kenneth McLellan | 7th Feb., 1871 | 10 | 33 | \" |\n| David Toomey | 18th April, 1871 | 10 | 32 | \" |\n| Li Ching | 7th Dec., 1870 | 10 | 31 | \" |\n| Sun Sz | 13th Sept., 1871 | 10 | 73 | \" |\n| Lo Soi | 15th April, 1878 | | 12 | |\n| Lo On Tak | 1st Sept., 1871 | 10 | 29 | After 10 years' service |\n| Cheng Fui | 1st July, 1871 | 11 | | |\n\n## Statement of various Expenses on account of the Police in addition to Salaries and Allowances\n\n### EUROPEANS\n\n* Bounty money for each man from England, £15 @ 3/9\n* Bonus after 5 years:\n\t+ Inspector, 1st class: Average $80.00, 3 Months' Pay $300.00\n\t+ 2nd: Average $240.00\n\t+ 3rd: Average $180.00\n* Sergeants: $135.00\n* Acting Sergeants: $127.50\n* Constables:\n\t+ 1st class: Average $120.00, $119.50 each $166.62\n\t+ 2nd: $111.00\n* Passage from England, average each: $230.00\n* Bonus after 10 years: the same amounts\n* Bonus after 15 years: $52\n* Pension after 10 years: 1/3 of pay\n\n### INDIANS\n\n* Bounty money: none\n* Bonus after 5 years:\n\t+ Jemahdhar: Average $85.50\n\t+ Sergeants:\n\t\t- 1st class: $67.50\n\t\t- 2nd: $61.50\n\t\t- 3rd: $58.50, Average $61.07\n\t+ Acting Sergeants:\n\t\t- 1st class: $54.00\n\t\t- 2nd: $52.50\n\t\t- 3rd: $48.00\n\t+ Constables:\n\t\t- 1st class: $46.50\n\t\t- 2nd: $40.50, Average $41.50\n\t\t- 3rd: $37.59\n* Passage from India, average each: $15.00\n* Bonus after 10 years: the same amount\n* Bonus after 15 years: $35\n* Pension after 10 years: 1/3 of pay\n\n### CHINESE\n\n* Bounty money: none\n* Bonus after 5 years:\n\t+ Interpreter: Average $75.00\n\t+ Sergeant: $75.00\n\t+ 2nd: $60.00\n\t+ Constable: $42.00\n\t+ 2nd: $33.00\n\t+ 3rd: $27.00\n\t+ Water Police-Sergeant: $39.00\n\t+ 2nd: $36.00\n\t+ 3rd: $33.00\n\t+ Acting:\n\t\t- 1st: $30.00\n\t\t- 2nd: $27.00\n\t+ Constable: $24.00\n\t+ 2nd: $21.00, Average $41.57, $30.00 each\n* Pension after 10 years: 1/3 of pay\n\n17th November, 1882\n\n(Signed) **A. K. TRAVERS**\n\n18th November, 1882\n\n(Signed) **FREDERICK STEWART**, Acting Auditor General", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330758, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "content_text": "# E. 2.\n\n## PARTICULARS RESPECTING FOLLOWING POLICE PENSIONERS.\n\n| Name | Joined on | Length of Service | Age at time of Retirement | Cause of Retirement |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Goolab Singh | 6th April, 1868 | 10 years | 32 | After 10 years' service. |\n| Sadoo Singh | | | 33 | |\n| Choor Singh | | | J | |\n| Heury Manskey | 2nd Sept., 1888 | 32 | \" | Injured on duty. |\n| Moolah Singh | 6th April, 1868 | 30 | \" | After 10 years' service. |\n| Hokum Singh | | | 22 | \" |\n| Abdul Kader | | | | |\n| Jowan Singh | 15th April, 1878 | 11 years | 27 | \" |\n| Amur Singh | 6th April, 1868 | 10 | 29 | \" |\n| Robert Clare | 1st Sept., 1809 | 10 | 10 months | \" |\n| Maha Singh | 6th April, 1868 | 114 | 26 | \" |\n| Abdula Khan | 1st June, 1867 | 124 | 30 | \" |\n| Kenneth McLellan | 9th Jun., 1871 | 10 | | \" |\n| David Toomey | 7th Feb, 1871 | 10 | | \" |\n| Li Ching | 18th April, 1871 | 10 | | \" |\n| Sun Sz | 7th Dec., 1870 | 10 | | \" |\n| Lo Soi | 13th Sept., 1871 | 10 | | \" |\n| La On Tak | 1st Sept., 1871 | 31 | | \" |\n| Cheng Fui | 1st July, 1871 | 10 | | \" |\n\n## INDIANS.\n\n| Category | Bounty money | Bonus after 5 years | Average |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Sergeants, 1st class | | | $67.50 |\n| 2nd | | | 61.50 |\n| 3rd | | | 58.50 |\n| Average | | | $61.07 |\n| Acting Sergeants, 1st class | | $54.00 | |\n| 2nd | | 52.50 | |\n| 3rd | | 48.00 | |\n| Constables, 1st class | | 46.50 | |\n| 2nd | | 40.50 | $51.28 |\n| 3rd | | 37.59 | |\n\nBonus after 10 years, the same amount.\n\nBonus after 15 years, $13.\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. K. TRAVERS.\n\n## CHINESE.\n\n| Category | Bounty money | Bonus after 5 years | Average |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Interpreter | none | $75.00 | |\n| 2nd | | 60.00 | |\n| Sergeant | | 75.00 | $53.14 |\n| 2nd | | 60.00 | |\n| Constable | | 42.00 | |\n| 2nd | | 33.00 | |\n| 3rd | | 27.00 | |\n| Water Police-Sergeant | | 39.00 | |\n| 2nd | | 36.00 | |\n| 3rd | | 33.00 | |\n| Acting, 1st | | 30.00 | $41.57 |\n| 2nd | | 30.00 | |\n| Constable | | 27.00 | |\n| 2nd | | 24.00 | |\n| | | 21.00 | |\n\nPassage from India, average each, $15.50.\n\nPension after 10 years, of pay.\n\n18th November, 1882.\n\n(Signed)\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nActing Auditor General.\n\n## F.\n\n## Statement of various Expenses on account of the Police in addition to Salaries and Allowances.\n\n### EUROPEANS.\n\n| Category | Bounty money | Bonus after 5 years | Average |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Inspector, 1st class | | $300.00 | |\n| 2nd | | 240.00 | $213.75 |\n| 3rd | | 180.00 | |\n| Sergeants | | 135.00 | |\n| Acting Sergeants | | 127.50 | |\n| Constables, 1st class | | 120.00 | $166.62 |\n| 2nd | | 111.00 | |\n\nBounty money for each man from England, £15 @ 3/9.\n\nBonus after 10 years, the same amounts.\n\nBonus after 15 years, +1.\n\nPassage from England, average each, $230.00.\n\nPension after 10 years, 1/8 of pay.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 375008, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "page_number": 337, "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "content_text": "Communications on this subject should be addressed to-\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nLondon, S.W.,\n\nand the following number quoted.\n\n916239/49.\n\nDraft\n\nMr MacNaghten 24/6\n\nSec. Kenneth 26/6\n\nInd\n\nB\n\n1939\n\n16239\n\nDowning Street,\n\n27 June 1899\n\n331\n\nGentlemen,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to\n\ninform you that Mr A.W. Grant\n\nhas been selected for appointment as\n\nJunior Grade Assistant Master, Bertha's College, Hongkong-\n\nI am to instruct you, on his signing the usual Agreement, to\n\nprovide him with a free passage\n\nto the Colony by Second Class\n\nby P. & O. mail Steamer or First Class by other Steamer, in the first convenient vessel leaving after the 20th proximo.\n\nI am,\n\nThe Crown Agents\n\nfor the Colonies.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nEDWARD WINGFIELD.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477832, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "# COPY\n\n**SIR JAMES ARNOTT TO CROWN AGENTS**\n\nMed.560.\n\n67\n\nGentlemen,\n\nREG 4 FEB 18\nREC 6176\n\n8 Rothesay Place,\nEdinburgh.\n28th January 1918.\n\nReferring to your letter of 7th January 1918, I have the honour to report that I have again examined Mr. Kenneth Mclennan, Land Bailiff, Hong Kong, whom I saw on the 25th September 1917. There is not much improvement in his condition. He is not under medical treatment, but has lost weight a little, and looks thinner. His digestive tract is still out of order with tendency to looseness, irritable tongue, and evidence of intestinal indigestion, also some rheumatic pains.\n\nHe has ...\n\nI am unable to certify him in good bodily health and in all respects physically fit to work. He was invalided on account of Sprue, a troublesome complaint liable to recur.\n\nI do not think it probable that he will be fit for service in less than six months, possibly longer, and he will be liable to recurrence of the disease on return to the tropics.\n\nOn the whole my opinion is that a person who has had Sprue is unfit to return to duty till after long leave in this country, and that it is prudent to permit Mr. McLennan to retire.\n\nI am,\n(Signed) James Arnott M.D.\nBrigade Surgeon, Lt.Colonel\nI.M.S. (Retired)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555251, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "page_number": 101, "title": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & FUTILE PROTESTS\n(Daily Press, October 27, 1937)\n\nWe have hundreds, nay thousands, of poor villagers who would be ready to come forward and tell of the damage done by the Japanese Navy, Army, and Air Force to non-combatants. No, Japan, you can \"fool all of the people some of the time\" but even those who are not aware of the brazen falsehoods spread by the Japanese propagandists in their effort to win some sympathy from the civilised world in their undeclared war against China, feel constrained to express indignation at the latest effort by their Navy Department, namely their plea of innocence in regard to the bombing, by Navy planes, of open towns and cities which resulted, as we already know, in the deaths of thousands of civilians.\n\nWe are indignant because it is such an insult to our intelligence for the Navy Department at Tokyo even to hope, for a moment, that we would swallow every statement they make. The Japanese naval authorities strongly resent the criticism levelled by some Powers and the League Advisory Committee against the air raids, contending that these criticisms are not based on sure ground. Fools in the world refuse to be fooled all of the time, in spite of the fact that your Navy Department \"hopes that the outside world will place confidence in the good faith of the Japanese Navy and show itself proof against reports of this kind.\"\n\nWhile the powers-that-be in Tokyo are busy, dividing their time between sending troops to North China, devising 'more effective' ways and means of subduing a nation that is fighting gallantly to protect its territorial sovereignty, and denying \"malicious reports,\" Japanese propagandists are less busy trying to \"take in\" the world with their cunningly worded statements. For instance, one went so far as to say that \"in raiding their objectives Japanese planes dive low, and in the face of heavy anti-aircraft fire, in order to ensure that their bombs hit their marks and nothing else.\" The reply to this is, if the Japanese planes did fly low at all, the purpose was to make doubly certain that their bombs and machine-guns would miss nothing, not even innocent civilians, women, and children.\n\nReports and photographs published in our columns during the past few weeks, all obtained from authentic sources, showed what havoc amongst the civilians these air raids had wrought in other open cities. Thousands have been rendered homeless as the direct result of these unprovoked and barbarous assaults on a defenceless people, and yet the Navy Department in Tokyo has the brazen effrontery to protest against the criticism made against the despicable methods adopted by their air force.\n\nThe Japanese sea lords then go one better. They have formally and emphatically denied the report in the foreign Press to the effect that many Chinese fishing boats were recently sunk by Japanese submarines in South China waters. How can this be when the Japanese Navy is constantly under orders not to attack defenceless craft? It is a protest that is so vigorous and so persistent that it is calculated to inspire nothing more helpful to Japan than resentment and suspicion.\n\n## THE DRUG TRAFFIC\n\nThose sections of the Report of the Fifth Committee of the League of Nations on the traffic in narcotics, laid before the Assembly at the end of September, which deal with the clandestine production of opium and similar drugs, make highly disagreeable reading for all Governments which are alive to the dangers of the illicit importation of great quantities of cheap narcotics from what are now the chief centres of their production. These centres, beyond any question, are Manchukuo and those parts of Northern China where Chinese authority had been undermined by the Japanese before the outbreak of hostilities.\n\nThe drugs are manufactured in the Japanese concession in Mukden and in Dairen but bear marks of Chinese origin. The Japanese laws do not allow the export of drugs from or through Japan or Korea; those therefore which are exported to America, Europe, and other regions are shipped nominally from Chinese ports.\n\nThe danger to other countries if this vast production of narcotics is allowed to continue unchecked need hardly be emphasized, and an offensive on a large scale is required unless the good work of the League of Nations is to be undone and the world is to be poisoned.\n\nThe contrast between the attitude of China and Japan towards the sale of narcotics is remarkable. In most provinces, China is taking drastic measures, even including the death penalty, against the vendors of opium, and there have been cases of the execution of addicts. In Manchukuo, on the contrary, the traffic in drugs is an open business, conducted under the auspices of the Government's opium monopoly. In Northern China, Tientsin has been the centre of a vast distributive trade conducted under Japanese official protection.\n\nThe comparison speaks for itself. All that need be said here is that it is disquieting to learn that a nation which still professes its desire to regenerate the Far East by its example should be so blind to the moral and physical damage which is being wrought under its aegis.\n\nThe Chinese, whether of Northern China or of Manchukuo, have been and still are the principal sufferers from this deplorable state of affairs. But there are limits to their absorptive capacity, for the drug habit sooner or later impoverishes its victims and a large-scale production of narcotics requires an expanding market. Here lies the danger to other countries. And here too lies a new danger to the prestige of Japan, which has already been gravely impaired by the ruthless violence of its militarists. No Government, however powerful, can afford to incur the suspicion that it encourages the development of the most disreputable of industries on an unprecedented scale.\n\n(Continued from page 606)\n\n## DONATIONS\n\nThe Director of Ambulance has the honour to acknowledge with grateful appreciation and thanks the receipt of the following donations:\n- $100.00 from Messrs. Yuet Koo Chai (per Mr. Fung Kong Un)\n- $21.50 from Staff of the Needle Hill Nine, Shing Mun (per \"S.C.M. Post\")\n- $12.00 from Mr. G. Bixby (per Mr. W. R. Andrews)\n- $3.00 from Mrs. A. Whittaker (per \"S.C.M. Post\")\n- One hypodermic syringe from Miss Mann for Cheung Chau Hospital.\n\nThe Hong Kong Chinese Relief Association acknowledges with thanks the donation of one thousand dollars from the Estate of the late Mr. Chan Kai Ming (per Mr. Kenneth Chan) `$1,000`.\n\n## CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\n## U.S. WILL KEEP OUT OF WAR\n\n\"Unless And Until Others Have Been Dragged In\"\n\n**STANLEY DOLLAR INTERVIEWED**\n\n\"American sympathy to-day is beyond question on the side of China, but if anybody thinks that that sympathy is going to find expression in America coming into this war as an active participant on the side of China he is greatly mistaken, if I have correctly interpreted the feelings of the average American.\n\nThis dogmatic statement was made to a representative of the `Daily Press` yesterday by Mr. Stanley Dollar, grandson of the famous Robert Dollar, founder of the Dollar Steamships, Ltd., who is now in Hong Kong. Mr. Stanley Dollar, a typical American university graduate, is on a round trip in the President Hoover which leaves Hong Kong to-day for the United States. He is a member of the Dollar Steamship Lines and does not intend to go in for politics. Ships, shipping, and the sea is in his blood, he says.\n\nMr. Dollar discussed the situation as affecting the United States quite freely. There was no doubt, he said, that trade was hit, and shipping even worse, by the Sino-Japanese hostilities and there was a rising tide of sympathy with the Chinese people all over America.\n\n\"But the American people,\" he continued, \"are, as a nation, totally against war so far as America is concerned, and I do not think they will take any sides in this war.\"\n\n### UNTIL OTHERS DRAGGED IN\n\nAs an afterthought, however, Mr. Dollar added these significant words: \"At any rate not unless and until others have been drawn into it.\"\n\n\"But do you not think a policy of isolationism is quite incompatible with the present order of things in this world? Aviation, wireless telephony, and other modern inventions—what one might call twentieth century progress—have made the world so much smaller that the nations are so inter-dependent and inter-connected that it has surely become impossible for any one of them to be disinterested in the others, at any rate among the great powers?\" asked the pressman.\n\n\"America will stay out of trouble and do her very utmost to prevent trouble elsewhere as long as she can,\" replied Mr. Dollar, \"but if anybody expects her to rush into this Far Eastern trouble as an active participant he is mistaken. The Americans feel they had enough of war the last time and they will not be dragged into another one easily. They are a peace-loving people and the great masses of the United States do not know and do not, I dare say, care to delve into the intricacies of international politics. But, of course, they are a very emotional people.\"\n\n### AMERICA NOT BOUND\n\nAs an example of this line of thought Mr. Dollar cited President Roosevelt's famous Chicago speech and said that the speech had not by any means created a favourable impression in the United States in so far as it tended to convey the impression abroad that America was committed to any line of action. On this score, it had been very strenuously criticised in the United States.\n\nWith regard to conditions in the United States, Mr. Dollar said there had been a distinct decline in trade of recent months but the country was certainly sharing in the general prosperity since the inception of the arms race a few years ago.\n\nOpinion in America, he thought, while being against war, was fully alive to the necessity of being adequately armed, in a world armed to the teeth, purely for defensive purposes. To this extent, the navy appropriations, huge as they have been, had not met with very great opposition, but it was not to be expected that America would go all out to create a record in the armaments race.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555605, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "content_text": "# \n-2- \n\nEvery effort must be made to get supplies and relief as quickly as possible to the sufferers. It is of the greatest importance that there should be a united effort and all other bodies are invited to co-operate.\n\nThe names of persons constituting the general and executive Committees which we are in process of forming in London will be published at an early date. Details regarding amounts subscribed will be published from time to time.\n\nInquiries should be addressed to the Rev. S. H. Dixon, China Secretary, Edinburgh House, or to Mr. F. C. Davies, Secretary British Red Cross Society, 14, Grosvenor Crescent, S.W.1. or to Mr. E. M. Gull, Secretary of the China Association.\n\nWe are, etc.\n\nCosmo Cantuar.\nWilliam Ebor.\nArthur Archbishop of Westminster.\nDugald Macfarlane, Moderator Church of Scotland.\nM. F. Aubrey, Moderator Federal Council of Free Churches.\nSidney M. Berry, Sec., Congregational Union of England & Wales.\nRobert Bond, Pres. Methodist Conference.\nJ. H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi.\nWilfred Littleboy, Society of Friends.\nGeorge Broadbridge, Lord Mayor of London.\nW. G. S. Adams, (Warden of All Souls).\nCharles Addis.\nAllen G. Anderson.\nAbe Bailey.\nD. G. M. Bernard, (Hon. Treasurer, China Association).\nBearsted.\nEvangeline Booth, (General Salvation Army).\nP. B. Clayton.\nRachel Crowdy.\nHugo Cunliffe-Owen.\nO. M. Green, (Lon. Rep. British Residents Asscn. of China).\nLionel Curtiss.\nBeatrix Manico Gull, (formerly Chairman, British Women's Asson. Shanghai).\nDorothea Hosie.\nA. D. Lindsay, (Master of Balliol).\nListowel.\nG. M. W. Macdonogh.\nMcGowan.\nAdrian C. Moreing.\nF. R. Peacock.\nE. Denison Ross, (Chairman, Council China Society).\nSamuel.\nArthur Stanley, (Chairman, British Red Cross Society).\nKenneth D. Stewart, (Chairman, China & Far East Sec. Manchester C. of C.).\nG. W. Swire, (Chairman China Asscn).\nJ. J. Thomson, (Master of Trinity, Cambridge).\nR. Waller, (Pres. Kristol Inc. Chamber of Commerce und Shipping).\nWillingdon.\n\nTo the Editor.\n\n67", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578574, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-1 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-11-1945 - 7-3-1946", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-592-1 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-11-1945 - 7-3-1946", "content_text": "they attended to receive their monthly allowances. They could then use these tinned goods for their relatives.\n\nMedical arrangements for wives and dependants of internees and prisoners of war comprised a visiting and dispensary doctor in Kowloon (Dr. J.J. Hua, Kwong Wah Hospital), Drs. Lai, Vargassoff, and myself for sick and hospitalised patients on the Island side of the harbour. Drs. Kenneth Chaun and Luk acted as dental surgeons and Drs. S.N. Chau and A. Mahan Singh as ophthalmologists.\n\nDr. T.P. Wu assisted me with tuberculous patients, including those admitted to the two tuberculosis wards at St. Paul's Hospital.\n\nHospitalisation of aged and infirm British.\n\nI had selected St. Paul's Hospital originally to accommodate a number of aged and infirm British and American nationals who would otherwise have taken up valuable bed-space in Tweed Bay Hospital, Stanley Camp. St. Paul's Hospital also served as temporary accommodation for patients brought out by my ambulance from Stanley for X-ray or other special examination not available in Stanley.\n\nBefore the Japanese forbade any further transfers (March, 1943) over 200 patients had been brought from Stanley to St. Paul's Hospital for longer or shorter periods. The arrangements provided me with a very satisfactory excuse to make contact with the Hon. Mr. F.C. Gimson (Chairman of the Camp), to seek his advice on financial and other matters, and to ascertain the most urgent needs of Stanley Camp.\n\nInformal Welfare Committee store for Camps.\n\nHaving St. Paul's Hospital as my headquarters, I was able to maintain store accommodation where foodstuffs, clothing, medical, etc., could be collected in very considerable quantities for dispersal to the camps without incurring the suspicion of the Japanese authorities.\n\nStore closed following arrest.\n\nShortly after my arrest on the 2nd May, 1943, and my wife's transfer from St. Paul's Hospital to Stanley Camp, the hospital authorities made it difficult for the store service to continue. Dr. P.C. Lai and Miss Helen Ho whom I had left in charge were obliged to make other arrangements and to curtail the service considerably.\n\nNeeds of general community.\n\nLest the foregoing should give the impression that medical and welfare work was restricted to the Military hospital, the military and civilian internment camps and to wives and families of prisoners of war and internees, it should, perhaps, be made clear that I did my best to serve the non-interned community too.\n\nFrom the end of February, 1942, my European staff was reduced to the Malariologist (Dr. J.B. Mackie), a Health officer (Dr. G. Graham-Cumming), a surgeon (Dr. P.F.S. Court), the Accountant (Mr. F.D. Angus), the Chief Inspector (Mr. G.I. Hooper) and the five Sanitary Inspectors (Messrs. Sinton, Kerrison for sea transport, Mr. Macey for land transport, Mr. Warburton for collection and burial of dead, and Fox to supervise town cleansing operations).\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-1 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-11-1945 - 7-3-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]