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DR. FRANCIS CLARK, the Mcdiail Officer of Health for Honfjkimj;, was horn on June 23, 1864, and educated at St. Paul's School, at Durham University, and at St. Bartholomew's and Middlesex Hospitals. He had a dis- lin>;uished career as a student, obtaining the Entrance Science Scholarship at the Middlesex Hospital in 1882, and the Hetley Scholarship and the Governor's Clinical Scholarship in 1885. He secured the bachelor's degree in 1892. and the doctor's degree in 1900, and holds the diplomas of M.K.C.S. and L.K.C.P. (Lond.), and D.P.H. (Cantab). After spending a few years in private practice he was for some time Assistant Medical Superintendent of Croydon Union Inlirmarv. and then Assistant Medical Ofticer of Health to the Port of Tyne. In 1893 he obtained the appointment of Medical Officer of Health and Superintendent of the F"ever Hos- pital, Lowestoft. Two years later he came to Hongkong as Medical Officer of Health. In l8(X) he was made a Justice of the Peace, and has on occasion served on both the E.ecutive and Legislative Councils. He has been Dean and Lecturer of the Hongkong College ol Medicine lor Chinese for more than ten years, and was president of the Hongkong and China Branch of the British Medical Association in 1899 and 1905. He is a member of the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple, a Fellow of the Koyal Sanitary Institute, and a member of the Pathological and Clinical Societies, London. His contributions to Medical Literature have been numerous and include "The Germ Theory of Disease," " Ambulance Notes," " The Ven- tilation, and P'lushing of Sewers in relation to Health," Annual Health Reports, 1893- 1907, and Plague Reports, 1896-1901. He has also written upon " The Duties and Difficulties of Port Medical Inspectors " for the British Medical Joitniol (1893), and contributed other articles to various medical journals, including one upon " The Notification of Measles" to The Medical Majinzine. Dr. Clark's chief recrea- tion is yachting, and he has been commodore of the Corinthian Yacht Club since its forma- tion. He is also a member of the Hongkong and of the Koyal Societies Clubs. In 1889 he married Gertrude, eldest daughter of the late PVancis Andrews, of Wallington, Surrey, and Denver, Colorado. U.S.A., formerly manager of the Agra Bank, Hongkong. His residence is " Kingsclere," Hongkong. DR. 0. P. JORDAN, M.B., CM. (Edln.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), is the senior medical man practising in the Colony. For twentv-two years he has had a private practice, and for nineteen he has held the position of Health Ofticer of the Port and Inspector of Immi- grants. He is a nephew of Sir Paul Chafer, and, like Sir Paul, has been prominently con- nected with public affairs for many years. His views on the progress of the Colony are interesting. He considers that the health of the community has been greatly improved during the last ten years, and notes with satisfactitm that malarial fever, which was most prevalent when he first came to the Colony, has now almost entirely disappeared. When Dr. Jordan first became acquainted with the Government Medical Department the staff consisted of three doctors, now it numbers eleven. Dr. Jordan has witnessed, among other reforms, a great improvement in the housing of the poorer class of the Chinese population. Dr. Jordan is the Right Wor- shipful District Grand Master of the District Grand Lodge of Scottish Freemasonry in Hongkong and South China. He is an en- thusiastic collector of articles of vertu, and his house in Bowmen Road contains many interesting curios. MR. FRANK BROWNE, Ph.C, F.C.S., J.P., the Government Analyst, Hongkong, was born on January 10, 1863. Before coming to the Colony to take up his present duties, in 1893, he was demonstrator in the laboratories of the Pharmaceutical Society and won a medal for chemistry. In 1894 he was selected to undertake special work in connection with the suppression of plague, and for his services he received a letter of thanks and a medal from the community of Hongkong. Again, for similar services in 1899 1901, he was the recipient of letters of thanks from the Sanitary Board. In 1898 he was appointed secretary to the Hongkong Liquor Commission. An enthusiastic sports- man, Mr. Browne is a qualified referee of the London Football Association and president of the Hongkong Football Club. He has published several papers on scientific subjects. ti DR. WILLIAM HUNTER, M.B., CM. (Aber.l, F.R.I. P.M. (Lond.), who has been the Government Bacteriologist since the early part of 1902, is the director of the Bacterio- logical Institute, the medical officer in charge of the Government Public Mortuary, and lecturer in pathology and bacteriology at the School of Medicine for Chinese. For carrying out the duties connected with these positions he is eminently fitted by a ripe scholarship and a wide experience. Born on May 25, 1875, Dr. Hunter is the son of the late Rev. W. Hunter, of Macduff, Banft'shire, Scotland. He was educated at Milne's Institution. Fochabers ; Robert Gordon's College ; King's College ; Marischal College, Aberdeen ; the University of Leipzig, the University of Berlin, and at the West London Hospital, His medical training was thus as complete as possible, and the distinctions gained during this period of tutelage were numerous. He was the James Anderson Medallist and Scholar, besides being the most distinguished medical graduate of Aberdeen University in 1896. In the same year he won John Murray's Medal and Scholarship, and from 1897 99 he was the holder of the George Thompson Travelling Fellowship. The various appoint- ments which he has held include those of medical and surgical officer. Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen ; laboratory assistant. Pathological Department, Aberdeen University ; clinical assistant. National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, London ; and laboratory assistant, Neuropathological Laboratory, King's College, London. He was assistant bacterio- logist at the London Hospital in 1900 I, and director of the Pathological Institute there in the latter year. In 1903, Dr. Hunter was appointed by the Government of Hongkong a member of the commission to inquire into the excessive infantile mortality among the Chinese. He is a member of the British Medical Association, a member of the Neuro- logical and Physiological Societies of Great Britain, and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health, London. His numerous publications on medical subjects include '■ Epidemic and Epizootic Plague," Hong- kong, 1904; "A Research into the Etiology of Beriberi" (jointly), 1906; Reports of the Government Bacteriologist for the years 1902 to 1906 inclusive ; many contributions to medical literature from the year 1897, chieHy contained in Journal of Anatomy, 1907; Brain, 1899 ; Journal of Pathology, 1900 ; Journal of State Medicine, 1900; Centralhlatt dcr Bakteriologie, 1901-5 ; Lancet, 1901-5 ; British Medical Journal. 1902 6 ; Journal of I'rcvcuti'ix Medicine. 1905 ; and Journal of Tropical Medicine, 1905. Dr. Hunter married, in 1902, Marie Alice, daughter of James Rae, of Culter, Aberdeenshire. He resides at " Mountain View," the Peak, Hongkong. z 3