15 Aug 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

The Maryknoll Diary notes that as punishment for the escape of R. E. Stott no-one's to be allowed to go to the French Hospital for X-rays for one month.

The British Communal Council, which is elected today, is renamed the British Community Council (see also August 18).

Source:

BCC: HK Public Records Office, HKRS112, Catalogue; G. B. Endacott and Alan Birch, Hong Kong Eclipse, 1978, 208

Note:

The Diary refers to the failure of a 'patient' sent to the French Hospital for X-rays to return to camp. In fact, Stott was sent there on  February 20 in the hope that the better diet would help his duodenal ulcer. It seems from Barbara Anslow's diary that the ban on X-ray leave lasted two months, as did the other punishment that Stanley received for this escape - the end to visits by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke. For Stott's escape and the controversy it caused see http://brianedgar.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/early-days-in-the-french-hospital-2-the-evidence-of-volunteer-stott/