June 13, Funeral services for the late Frank James Willis, Inspector of the Shang. hai Municipal Police, were he! yesterday afternoon at' the Bubbling Well Cemetery, with Dean A, Trivett of Holy Trinity Caihedrai officiating in the Chapel and at the grave. All branches of the Shanghai Municipal Police were represented, together with representatives from the French Municipal Police, French Fire Brigade and the Shanghai Fire Brigade, The late Inspector Willis had endeared" himself to a host friends, to whom he was affectionate ly known as "Jack". Among those Dresent_at the funeral were Captain M, Smyth, Deputy Commissioner, SMP, Mr. A. H, Samson and Mr!
R."Grubb, Acting Commi SMP. "Also present were:—Mr, Yao nett, A.C, D.0, "A"
Liang Ping Chun, "Alc. (C), J.B, Clis-sold," D.C, WS.
Chia Jui, Supt, Wa Hsueh Chi Liang. survived by his wife, Willis, from whom a beautiful heart of flowers was lowered into the grave with the casket, and by one sister is Edith Willis of Southampton. 'The casket was draped with' the: Shanghai Municipal Police Flag upon which rested the Shanghai Municipal Emergency Medal, Cap and baton of deceased, and was carried to the grave by Inspectors C, White and H. Willgoss, Detective "Sub-Inspectors, T, Darvill, G, Pryde and R, Bynstone, Sib-Inspectors, W, Fowler, J. Cady and C, Weed." Those sending' dona-tons to the British War Fund will be: announced later, Tue Shanghi Couneit Municipal health report for the week ending midnight June 14, shows that the: total number of deaths from all causes amongst the foreign and Chi nese population in the Settlement was—Foreigners 17 and Chinese 1005, Deaths from notifiable diseases were—Foreigners, bacillary dysen~ tery and typhus fever one each, Chinese, tuberculosis 64; typhoid fever 62; measles 11; relapsing fever 9: dysentery &: diphtheria 2 and. smallpox, scarlet fever, cerebrospinal fever, paratyphoid fever, beri-beri, typhus fever one each, The Late Dr. O'Hara Expressing the feelings of all those who had known him and the sorrow they fel at his death. Dr. E.G, Gauntlett read an appreciation of Dr. W. B, (Bill) O'Hara written by him= self ai the last meeting of the Shangha} Medical Association. The appreciation follows:
Since our last meeting. the medical profession in Shanghai has. suffered severe loss in the death of our very popular colleague and friend Dr. W. E. O'Hara. and I am confden! thay it will be the wish of every member of this society that we should place on record an expression of the admiration and sincere affection we felt for him during the many years he worked amongst us as one of the leaders of the profession in Shanghai. and the deep regret with which we realize that he Is no longer with us.
O'Hara, as the, was known to friends and patients alike. came to Shanghai over twenty-one years ago. after distinguished war service with the Australian Forces in Gallipoli and Palestine. He was born' in Mel-
Bourne, Australias where hig father was for many years one of the leading surgeons. He received his medi. cal education at Edinburgh Univer ssily. where he obtained not-only his University degrees, but also the fellow ship of the College of Surgeons Bill was a brilliant. surgeon, a wise Giagnostician, and a sound friend and adviser to his many patients whose confidence he won by his frank hearty manner, his keen sense of humane and commonsense knowledge of the World. "His kindness was outstanding aiM his gentleness with children, was almost' out of keeping with his gigantic frame and breezy manner, By nature he was generosity itself and we shall never know the full extent to which he practised the proverbial, art of "helping lame doge over stiles was also a grand sportsman, an excellent eicketer, t sound Bol
2 lover and ne exponent of toxins: or, been olower of" facing "and T saw him a few Nour before he died and. was greatly Impressed by "his alm "confidence, He had. fought a rear Aight against Mis relentless dst case and I like to think that Bil 2 ericheter should have "kept wicket up to the end of the: funings Bnd' Wwas unbeaten when Ht closed"
"OF hie we can truly say that we are alt better for having ion hit Sid that We shall go fr before We find anther quite fike Mim
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