Friday, September 13, 2013

Chronology

updated April 6, 2014.

1841
1/[n.d.]The Convention of Chuenpee 穿鼻草約 (between Qing and UK) is negotiated (but never signed) as an attempt to end the First Opium War; no ratification will ever be made by either government
1/26Under the Convention of Chuenpee Hong Kong is ceded to the UK; British authorities in China act unilateral on a treaty pending for ratification and landed at Possession Point; Hong Kong is taken by force.
1/[n.d.]The Naval and military hospital establishes as the first hospital in Hong Kong; it closes forever after its meshed structure is destroyed by typhoon only 6 months after completion.
8/[n.d.]Henry Holgate is appointed Acting Colonial Surgeon. [His appointment was, however, quickly disallowed after Charles Elliot, Administrator of Hong Kong and the man who made the appointment, was himself sacked by Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.]
1842
3/31 Hong Kong's first British rule government is a pre-colonial provisional government established and headed by Henry Pottinger, Plenipotentiary, Minister Extraordinary.
8/15Pathologist [s.n.] Lunn performs Hong Kong's first autopsy; the subject is Chinese woman Nga Lok-po; the cause of death he determines is "visitation of God".
8/29The Treaty of Nanking (between Qing and UK) ends the First Opium War; ratification and exchange will be completed in 9 months; Hong Kong formally ceded to Britain.
[n.d.]Charles A. Winchester is appointed Hong Kong's first Assistant Surgeon in the provisional government; he is Hong Kong's first government doctor.
1843
4/5 A British Royal Charter, titled "Charter of the Colony of Hong Kong" of April 5, 1843 is issued, officially constitutes Hong Kong as a colony of the British Crown.
6/6The Hospital of the Medical Missionary Society, established by the London Missionary Society, is Hong Kong's first missionary hospital.
6/7HMS Minden is the first British Royal Naval ship to serve as a hospital ship in Hong Kong.
6/30Two doctors are among the first 44 Justices of the Peace ever appointed in Hong Kong, they are Alexander Anderson (official) and Peter Young (non-official).
8/[n.d.]The Hong Kong Seamen's Hospital, built with public subscriptions, is Hong Kong's first (non-missionary) private hospital.
10/1Alexander Anderson is appointed Hong Kong's first Colonial Surgeon.
1844
[n.d.]Francis Dill is appointed Colonial Surgeon (vice Alexander Anderson).
[n.d.]D'Aguilar Hospital (a.k.a. Old British Military Hospital)
1845
[n.d.]China Medico-Chirurgical Society is the first medical society established in Hong Kong; Alfred Tucker, Surgeon of HMS Minden, is elected its first president.
1846
10/[n.d.]Francis Dill died from liver complication (or malarial fever); he is the first Colonial Surgeon to die in office.
10/[n.d.]Peter F.H. Young is appointed Colonial Surgeon (vice Francis Dill).
12/[n.d.]HMS Aligator arrives in Hong Kong to replace Minden as a medical ship and a store ship. [It was decommissioned sold in Hong Kong in October 1865.]
1847
[n.d.]William Morrison is appointed Colonial Surgeon; he is the first London appointed CS.
1848
1849
[n.d.]The Government Civil Hospital opens.
1850
1851
1852
1853
[n.d.]William Morrison dies from an abscess of the liver (or of malarial fever).
[n.d.]James Carroll Dempster is appointed Colonial Surgeon (vice William Morrison).
1854
1855
1856
1857
[n.d.]William Aurelius Harland is appointed Colonial Surgeon (vice James Carroll Dempster).
1858
4/12John Ivor Murray is appointed Colonial Surgeon (vice William Aurelius Harland, deceased).
[n.d.]The Lock Hospital opens.
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1/[n.d.]The Smallpox Hospital opens.
[n.d.]The Sanatorium opens at the Peak area.
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
2/14The Tung Wah Hospital opens.
1873
1/14Robert McCoy is appointed Colonial Surgeon (vice John Ivor Murray); he dies after a few months due to illness contracted in Hong Kong.
11/4Philip Bernard Chenery Ayres is appointed Colonial Surgeon (vice Robert McCoy). [Ayres was the last Colonial Surgeon; the office was reconstituted as Principal Civil Medical Officer after his retirement in 1897. There were seven Colonial Surgeons between 1843 and 1897; four died while holding office.]
[n.d.]The Royal Naval Hospital opens.
1874
1875
[n.d.]The Lunatic Asylum opens.
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
4/18The Sanitary Board is established.
1884
4/5The Medical Board is established.
1885
1886
1887
[n.d.]The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (HKCMC) opens.
1888
1889
1890
11/15The British Medical Association Hong Kong and China Branch (HKBMA) is established.
1891
1/14HKBMA is recognized by the Council of the British Medical Association
1892
[n.d.]HKCMC awards the Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery of Hong Kong (LMSH) degree to its first tow graduates: Sun Yat-sen 孫中山 and Kong Ying-wah 江英華.
1893
[n.d.]Kwan King-leung 關景良, HKCMC's third LMSH, is appointed surgeon at the Nethersole Hospital. He is the first locally trained doctor to practice in Hong Kong.
1910
[n.d.]British Military Hospital (a.k.a. Bowen Road Hospital) 山頂陸軍醫院 opens
1910
9/2The Midwives Board is established,
1912
3/11The University of Hong Kong (HKU) opens. HKCMC merges into HKU.
1914
8/1The Dental Board is established.
1915
[n.d.]The National Association of China 中華醫學會, Hong Kong Branch is established
[n.d.]HKCMC granted its last LMSH to Alfred Stanley Tuxford.
1920
[n.d.]The Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association 中華醫學會 is established.
1940
[n.d.]The Hong Kong Nurses and Midwives Association 香港護士及助產士會 is established.
1964
[n.d.]The nurse members of the Hong Kong Nurses and Midwives Association splits from the association and forms a new society named Nurse Associates.
1969
[n.d.]The Hong Kong Nurses and Midwives Association is renamed Hong Kong Midwives Association.
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