Dental Institutions in Singapore and Malaysia

National University of Singapore (NUS)
Faculty of Dentistry
http://www.dentistry.nus.edu.sg/faculty/roll/1936.htm
Accessed on 14 December 2008

Malaysian Dental Association (MDA)

54-2 (2nd Floor) Medan Setia 2
Plaza Damansara, Bukit Damansara
50490 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 603-20951532, 20951495
Fax: 603-20944670
Email: mda@streamyx.com
http://www.mda.org.my/00_home.htm
Accessed on 14 Dec 2008

Malaysian Dental Council (MDC)
From MOH Website
MDC website
Contact Us:
The Registrar
Malaysian Dental Council
Level 5, Block E10,
Parcel E, Precinct 1
Federal Government Administration Centre,
62590 Putrajaya.  
Tel : 603-88834217
Fax : 603-88886133
mdc@moh.gov.my

Sekolah Perawatan Pergigian Pulau Pinang
No info yet

Dental Schools in Malaysia

UM	University of Malaya Faculty of Dentistry
UKM	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Faculty of Dentistry
USM	Universiti Sains Malaysia School of Dentistry
AIMST	AIMST University School of Dentistry
PIDC	Penang International Dental College
IIUM	Kulliyah of Dentistry, IIUM Kuantan
UTM	Univerisiti Teknologi Mara Dental Faculty
USIM	Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Dental Faculty
MAHSA	MAHSA University College School of Dentistry

Early dentists
Dr Abdul Karim bin Nawab Din
Dr Mohamed bin Taib
Dr Nuruddin bin Mohd Salleh

Ministry of Health Malaysia
Oral Health Division
Organisation Chart (20 Jan 2010)
Dental History
- The development of oral healthcare has been greatly facilitated by the establishment of professional organisations, the largest being the Malaysian Dental Association (MDA). The MDA evolved from its precursor, the Malayan Dental Association that was officially inaugurated in 1938. Professor Edgar K. Tratman was its first President. The name change came in 1963 with the official formation of Malaysia.

Health Ministers of Malaysia / Menteri Kesihatan MalaysiaMenteri Kesihatan Malaysia ke empat ialah Y.B. En Abdul Rahman Talib (1962 - 1964).

Photo gallery
Dental photos supplied by the family of Dr Mohamed bin Taib are shown below. The problem is the photos were supplied without captions and I am lost to who are in the photos, what occasion and venue. I've tried contacting a senior family member but I think numerous spams got in the way and I had to block spams. I have tried to reconnect via Facebook but we don't get to access Facebook during office hours and I have to wait till I go home. But when I reached home I forgot to follow up in Facebook and that has gone for many years! I need assistance with the identification of people in the following photos. The photos were probably between 1962 and 1964, judging from the attires and dental equipment, and when YB En Abdul Rahman bin Talib was Health Minister. I have also written to the Nursing Association which also doubles as the nursing alumni but have not got much luck with these photos. Please help if you can.

Man with songkok is YB En Abdul Rahman bin Talib, the 4th Minister of Health Malaysia (1962-1964) (also refer to Rahman Talib Report in Wikipedia re government pensioners' scheme)

Second from right is YB En Abdul Rahman bin Talib (with songkok). Pahang dentist, Dr Mohamed bin Taib is in the middle, facing the camera.

YB En Abdul Rahman bin Talib at centre

YB En Abdul Rahman bin Talib officiating the opening of a new dental clinic. Venue unknown.

YB En Abdul Rahman bin Talib at far right.

Welcoming YB En Abdul Rahman bin Talib for officiating the opening of a new dental clinic. Venue unknown.

Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS)

These are the addresses for  contacting PAS offices to obtain the biographies of 2 of the early Malay doctors - Dr Haji Abbas bin Haji Alias (also check Wikipedia) and Dr Amir Burhanuddin al-Helmy. The writer for the biographies of these two doctors is YB Tuan Haji Saari bin Sungib, ADUN Hulu Klang. Saari Sungib wrote a very important book which I can't get hold of, Biodata 5 Tokoh PAS. Saari Sungib is also in Facebook and Wikipedia. He has written 30 books.

Monday, 05 November 2007

Pejabat Perhubungan PAS  Negeri-Negeri & Wilayah Persekutuan   KELANTAN Setiausaha Perhubungan PAS Kelantan Badan Perhubungan PAS Negeri Kelantan Tingkat 3, Jalan Dato’ Pati 15000 Kota Bharu Kelantan Darul Naim. Tel : 09-7481131 / 09-7478815 Fax : 09-7461873 / 09-7431344 kelantan@parti_pas.org paskelantan@hotmail.com KEDAH Setiausaha Perhubungan PAS Kedah Badan Perhubungan PAS Negeri Kedah Kompleks PAS Kedah KM 13, Jalan Alor Setar - Sungai Petani Simpang Empat 06650 Alor Setar Kedah Darul Aman. Tel : 04-7481122 Fax : 04-7481123 Dupn_kedah@yahoo.com TERENGGANU Setiausaha Perhubungan PAS Terengganu Badan Perhubungan PAS Negeri Terengganu No 33 Taman Sri Intan, Jalan Sultan Omar 20300 Kuala Terengganu Terengganu Darul Iman. Tel : 09-6203314 Fax : 09-6203311 pastrg@streamix.com.my SELANGOR Setiausaha Perhubungan PAS Selangor Badan Perhubungan PAS Negeri Selangor No. 12-C, Tingkat 3, Blok 1 Pusat Perniagaan Worldwide Jalan Tinju 13/50 40000 Shah Alam Selangor Darul Ehsan. Tel : 03-55184530 Fax : 03-55134323 setiausahanegeri@paselangor.com

Source: http://www.pas.org.my/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=28

SlideShare: PAS Dakwah dan Politik

Talks to decide PMIP's new name
New Nation, 16 June 1971, Page 3

DOCTORS IN THE EAST : WHERE WEST MEETS EAST

I borrowed this book  from our medical library and read it. I tried writing to the author (Dr Ho Tak Ming) but instead got a Chinese man in my Facebook who only wrote in Chinese script and got lots of porn photos which I don't need!

Who knows the real author? If you are the author, can you please contact me? There is Dr Samsudin Cassim mentioned in the book and I need permission to use some of the contents. I would also like to know how/where to contact the family. His son Tan Sri Osman is/was with Berjaya group but I need his e-mail to contact him if anyone knows the son or any family member.


----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Nor hairani binti. Abd Rashid" <hairani@kk.usm.my>
To: faridah
Cc: "asmak" <asmak@kb.usm.my>, draman@kk.usm.my
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:11:34 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi
Subject: ITEM READY FOR BORROWING : DOCTORS IN THE EAST : WHERE WEST MEETS EAST

Assalamualaikum & Good afternoon,

Dear Prof.,

We would like to inform you that your request for the item below is ready for borrowing. 

Title : Doctors in the east: where west meets east
Author: Ho Tak Ming
Publisher: Pelanduk Publication
Year of Publication: 2001
Call Number: WZ56 H678 2001

You can get the item at Customer Relation Department or Circulation Counter. Please contact me if you have any inquiries.

Thank you.


Nor Hairani Ab Rashid
Customer Relation Department
hairani@kk.usm.my
1448

The Civilised Malay

Zimbra Collaboration Suite

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The Civilized Malay
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The Civilized Malay

Saturday, 29 November, 2008 10:37:52 PM

From:
To:

It seems that we are just one race after all...please read from:

Malaya and Its History by Sir Richard Windstedt, London. 1948

THE CIVILIZED MALAY

The migration of the Malays from Yunnan down to the Malay peninsula took place between 2500 and 1500 B.C. Their
quadrangular adze culture, accompanied by unglazed cord­-marked pottery of great variety, has been traced from China
southward, and "the highly specialized pick-adzes of Java and Sumatra from a simple adze type with quadrangular cross­
section and semi-circular edge found in Laos through an inter­mediate type frequent in Malaya indicates the direction and
way of their migration"--namely, down the Malay peninsula. Some may have travelled by land, others across the Gulf of
Siam in craft developed from bamboo outriggers still in use on rivers in Burma and Indo-China. Among the earliest waves may
have been the Jakun. But the most important movement brought the ancestors of the Malays of Kedah, Kelantan and
Patani to become the civilized hinduized subjects of Langka­ suka and Sri Vijaya. The people of Kelantan, who have been
compared to the Polynesians, are bigger than the Malays of the south, perhaps because they represent a different strain,
perhaps on account of a better climate or the better food of an ancient rice area.

For the culture of primitive Malays, language and pre-historic discoveries provide the only evidence. And while
earlier peoples, apparently with an Australo-Melanesoid strain, lived in caves or left gigantic shell-heaps, the debris of
antediluvian meals, to bear witness to their location, the more highly civilized Indonesian and primitive Malay inhabited
villages that are revealed only by some accident like the great flood of 1926, which unearthed one at Tembeling in Pahang.
Yet there is ample evidence that, before these neolithic people left the continent of Asia, they made pottery and built mega­
liths. They were hunters--not only of game but of human heads for the sake of their soul-substance. They were fishermen
acquainted with traps of bamboo and wood, though not, apparently, with the cast-net or other nets of cord. They lived, as villagers still live, in houses built on piles and lashed with rattan, with bamboo flooring and walls. In their gardens they
cultivated sugarcane, bananas, the gourd and the coconut. Their field-crops were millet (still a Sakai crop) and rice, both of
which provided them with food and fermented drink. They had domesticated the pig and the buffalo and perhaps cattle. Their
clothes were of bark. Their numerals went up to a thousand and they possessed some knowledge of the stars.

It must have been long before the Christian that Malay names were given to many parts of Malaya like Kelantan, Muar and Tumasik (which Hindus changed to Singapore). The meaning of Naning, for example, is forgotten today, but we know from the Malay element in the Khasi of Assam that it means "Upriver". Possibly no generic name was adopted by the scattered tribes until Jambi or Melayu succeeded Sri Vijaya in the thirteenth century, after which they called them­selves Malays.

Jambi fell, to be succeeded by inland Minangkabau. But when Malacca was founded with a population largely made up of Malay sea-gipsies, its commerce attracted many Malays from the opposite coast of Sumatra, more especially Hindu Minang­kabaus, who sought the gold districts of Pahang and the valleys of what in the eighteenth century became Negri Sembilan. Bugis, too, from Celebes, in 1700 founded modern Selangor and in 1722 became Underkings of the Johore empire. Most of the Bugis immigrants, at any rate, were men of birth who inter­married with peninsular royalties and dominated their local Malay subjects. And to infer from the legends of the Malay Annals that most of the Malays of the peninsula crossed from Sumatra in mediaeval times is to ignore the evidence of pre-
history and place-names. The Malays have at least as much right to be regarded as the aboriginal people of Malaya as the English have to be called the aborigines of England.

The Malay of today, a broad-headed individual with olive skin, fine eyes, a neat well-proportioned body, lank black hair and almost hairless chin, is the primitive Malay plus many foreign strains derived from marriage with Chinese from Chou times down to the advent of Islam, with Hindus of the Deccan and Bengal, with Muslim Indians, Siamese and Arabs. They have changed little since Magellan's brother-in-law, Duarte Barbosa, described them from his experience in the East between 1500 and 1517: "They are well-set-up men and go bare from the waist up but are clad in cotton garments below. They, the most distinguished among them, wear short coats which come half-way down their thighs, of silk cloth--in grain or brocade--and over this they wear girdles; at their waists they carry daggers in damascene-work which they call creews.

Their women are tawny-coloured, clad in very fine silk garments and short skirts decorated with gold and jewels. They are very
comely, always well-attired and have very fine hair. . . . They live in large houses outside the city with many orchards, gardens and tanks, where they lead a pleasant life. They are polished and well-bred, fond of music and given to love."

To bring the picture up to date: all but the peasant at work in his fields wear coats nowadays: creeses are worn only at court ceremonies, and many Malays have adopted European dress for working hours. Some years ago when a Resident issued a circular in praise of Malay costume and in favour of its retention, the Malay chiefs at the next meeting of the State Council asked him the reason: was he concerned lest they should contract chobi[1]-itch?

It is a pity that modern life and the Malay's own administration for European ways have conspired to make the white man for­
get what Miss Isabella Bird, author of The Golden Chersonese, knew in 1879: "The Malays undoubtedly must be numbered among civilized peoples. . . . They have possessed for centuries systems of government and codes of land and maritime law, which in theory at least show a considerable degree of enlightenment."

The Malay has great pride of race--due, perhaps, as much to his Muhammadan religion as to a past he has forgotten. He has, as Sir Frank Swettenham once wrote, "as good a courage as most men", and a better sense of the values of what life offers than is generally gained from book philosophies. Even the aborigines of Malaya have attractive manners, and the Malay has not only undergone the discipline of Hindu etiquette but has been affected by his Muslim teaching much as an English boy has been affected by the public school, acquiring poise and confidence. Because he is an independent farmer with no need to work for hire, the Malay has got an undeserved reputation for idleness, which his Asiatic competitors take care to foster. In affairs he is not only diplomatic but intelligent and states­manlike, with a natural ability to weigh both sides of a question. His domestic life is happy. He marries young, but in spite of the latitude of Islamic practice the peasant has seldom been a polygamist, though the immemorial need for sons to work his fields makes him prone to repudiate a childless wife.

At the 1947 census, out of 2,395,123 Malays in the Federation, 264,630 were comparatively new-comers from Sumatra and Java, men of the Malay's own racial stock and religion, who alone of the country's immigrants rapidly become absorbed into the Malay community. In the Federation, too, the Malays formed 43·77 per cent of the total population and the Chinese 38·6 per cent. But in Kelantan, for example, the population is almost wholly Malay.
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1 Hindustani for "laundryman".

Japanese Occupation

The Japanese war heightened and the heartless killings went on a spree till sheer misery loomed over the entire Tanah Melayu for more than three tragic years. Survivors of the gory war could only narrate torture, atrocities including teen rapes, deep sorrow and broken dreams even as this chapter is being written. There was no hope of victory against a fierce nation, the land of the rising sun. Though faced with fear of the glistening samurai swords, the soft-hearted Malays still referred to Japan by its poetic name, Negara Matahari Terbit and the Japanese people as orang Jepun.

"My death is my apology for my great crime" - a kamikaze (suicide) note.

"Sayonara, my soldier...you are brave to die for your country." That's all I have to say to the Japanese soldiers who died fighting for Japan in WWII.

What are the "International Laws of Warfare"? I haven't heard of them. Who made them? Who approved them? And how come we still have war today involving superpowers? Or is it a masked genocide? So the Japanese war wasn't so bad after all? Necessary evil?

Hiroshima - Dropping the Bomb
Hiroshima - Atomic Bombing (nuclear fission and mushroom cloud) 

This song is for all who have broken hearts, from all causes, including war.

Behrang Ulu in Perak

Behrang Ulu is in Perak. Behrang Ulu is located approximately 12 km north of Tanjung Malim if passing through Proton City, and 7 km west of Behrang or Behrang Stesen, and approximately 25 km south of Slim River, Perak.

Behrang Ulu comprises two settlements at the upper reaches of Sungai Behrang which flows into Sungai Bernam. One settlement Kampung Sungai Sekiah and Batu 8 has many Malay settlers while the another settlement at Kampung Baru Behrang Ulu (called POS in the local accent) has Chinese and Indian settlers. The Orang Asli live nearby in Kampung Chinggong and Chinaen.

The Malay settlers of Behrang Ulu comprise various ethnic groups such as the Mandailing, Minang, Rokan, Selayang, Rawa and Kampar among others.

Dr Burhanuddin al-Helmy had studied at Sekolah Melayu Behrang Ulu before proceeding to Sekolah Melayu Bakap.

Behrang Ulu is agricultural land and produces seasonal fruits such as durian, mangosteen and petai. 

Its rubber lands are no longer lucrative and have given way to newer industries including car manufacture.

Bandar raya Proton or Proton City was created based on an agreement between the government of Perak and Selangor to develop Lembah Bernam (Bernam Valley). Proton City was created for the production of Gen 2 cars after the Shah Alam plant was operating at maximum capacity and further expansion needed a new site.

Sources:
http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behrang_Ulu
http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar_raya_Proton

Dr Amir Burhanuddin Al-Helmy

This was my first e-mail to Dr Farish Ahmad-Noor re Dr Burhanuddin al-Helmy.

Faridah Abdul Rashid

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Dr Burhanuddin al-Helmy
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Faridah Abdul Rashid	Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:36 PM
To: farish@othermalaysia.org
Dear Dr. Farish Ahmad-Noor, Assalamu'alaikum, Guten Tag, I heard about you from En Mohd. Fadli Ghani, Pengarah, Pusat Kajian Kota based in KL. I am in the midst of writing "The Early Malay Doctors" 1900-1957. I need your help with one chapter on Dr. Burhanuddin al-Helmy (attached). TQ Danker, Faridah Assoc. Prof. Faridah Abdul Rashid USM Kubang Kerian, Kelantan CHAPTER 13 Professor Burhanuddin al-Helmy-27June2008.doc 101K

Labour Day Special

This song is for everyone who's visiting my blog today.

Thank you for visiting....

BEE GEES - HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE?

Enjoy!

Primary Care Research Database

UM Letter 6 June 2005

The text below is reproduced from the letter by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Khoo Ee Ming. It was wrongly addressed to UKM and went to Dept. of Pathology, USM before it finally arrived in my pigeon-hole on 13 June 2005 - Faridah.

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Dr Faridah Hj Abd Rashid

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical Pathology

School of Medical Sciences

Universiti Kebangsaan Sains Malaysia
Kubang Kerian
16150 Kelantan

6 June 2005


Dear Dr Faridah Hj Abd Rashid

Re: Bibliography of Primary Care Research

We are a group of primary care physicians and researchers from University of Malaya, International Medical University and the Ministry of Health conducting a research on "Evaluation of Primary Care Research". As part of the project, we need to collect as comprehensive a list as possible of all the research and publications done that is pertaining to primary care in Malaysia. As many of the articles published were not accessible electronically, researchers and doctors were not able to access the information which is essential for the progress of research in our country.

We understand that you have conducted research and published papers in Malaysia. We would really appreciate your co-operation to let us have a copy of all your full text articles for completeness of the data. We are hoping to produce a bibliography of the researches done from 1966 to date and this list will be valuable to all doctors who are going to conduct research. We appreciate your contribution to this research and will be happy to provide you a list of studies done when we have completed the project. We will also be happy to pay for the postage when you sent us your copies of papers if you provide us a receipt.

Please send your copies of papers to:

Associate Professor Dr Khoo Ee Ming

Department of Primary Care Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Malaya
50603 Kuala Lumpur
 

We would like to thank you for your cooperation for the advancement of primary care research.

Yours sincerely

Dr Khoo Ee Ming
Associate Professor
Principal investigator for project on Bibliography of Primary Care Research

khooem@um.edu.my

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Jabatan Perubatan Rawatan Utama
Fakulti Perubatan, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: (603) 7950 2306 / 2802 / 2803 · Faks: (603) 79577941

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Sejarah Awal Pulau Pinang

Muhammad Haji Salleh, Editor. Sejarah Awal Pulau Pinang. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang. 2008. ISBN 978-983-861-356-9. Printed by Sinaran Bros Sdn Bhd. [Malay text]

Font: ACaslon Regular

Distributors:
Koperasi Kedai Buku Universiti Sains Malaysia Bhd
MPH Distributors Sdn Bhd

Other books by the same author:
Syarahan Perdana: Muhammad Haji Salleh, 1989. Puitika Sastera Melayu: Suatu Pertimbangan, ISBN 967-942-157-0

Points to ponder in Sejarah Awal Pulau Pinang:

1. What ethnic groups existed in Malaya?
2. Who came to Malaya before Independence?

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Page 88, footnote 75

Terdapat juga pendatang dari India Utara yang disebut Benggali. [...] hampir semua kumpulan etnolinguistik dari India terdapat di Malaya. Antara kumpulan etnolinguistik India yang terdapat di Malaya pada tahun 1921 hingga 1957 ialah orang India Selatan (Tamil, Telugu, Malayali dan lain-lain), orang India Utara (Sikh, Punjabi, Pathan, Benggali, Gujarati, Mahratta, Sindhi, Rajput, Marwari dan Parsi) dan kumpulan orang India yang lain.

Pada awal abad ke-20, orang India di Pulau Pinang juga terdiri daripada dua kategori lain iaitu askar/sepoi yang dihantar untuk berkhidmat di Negeri-Negeri Selat dan banduan yang didatangkan dari Bangkahulu selepas Perjanjian Inggeris Belanda pada tahun 1824.

Askar dan banduan ini sudah pasti tidak terdiridaripada satu kumpulan etnolinguistik sahaja.

Kumpulan banduan ini juga mempercepatkan kadar pertumbuhan Jawi Peranakan apabila mereka mengambil keputusan menetap di Pulau Pinang selepas mendapat keampunan daripada kerajaan India.

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Analysis of the footnote above is given below.

Composition of Indians who came to Malaya. This composition is by etnolinguistic (ie by their spoken languages) and also for what they were hired in the British Army.

South Indians

Tamil - the founders of Masjid Kapitan Keling in Penang are forefathers of the Merican doctors
Telugu
Malayali
Other

North Indians

Sikh - non Muslim?
Punjabi - [Yasmin Begum Mokhtar Ahmad's ancestors]
Pathan - Sir Dr Kamil Ariff's ancestors
Benggali - Dr Mohamed Ibrahim Shaik Ismail Ballah's ancestors who arrived in Singapore
Gujarati
Mahratta
Sindhi - Dr Che Lah Md Joonos' ancestors in Butterworth who relocated to Kg Dodol, Jalan Perak
Rajput
Marwari
Parsi - non Muslim?

Soldiers (sepoy) - mixed etnolinguistic

Convicts - mixed etnolinguistic

1. Two other groups which are not mentioned are launderers (dhobi) and tailors (tukang jahit). The tailors served in the British Army and made uniforms. The other group washed dirty clothes and linen.
2. The sepoy category has sub-categories just like in the army today.
3. I will try and match the various etnolinguistic groups to the doctors' families but only for the ones I know and have been informed. You can read about them when the proposed book is published.
4. I was told that the Parsi group are non Muslim but are sun worshipers?  True? False?

Lung Cancer in Malaysia

I've picked out the salient points and listed them here for public interest and for my present research and writing, and maybe later for my IT contract research. I've written the points in appraisal form so you can see what's lacking in health & disease statistics wrt lung cancer in Malaysia.

Published review:

Dr Hooi Lai Ngoh
http://www.eimjm.com/Vol1-No2/vo1-No2%20K1.html
- comprehensive national population-based cancer registry 
- it is the leading cause of cancer death in Malaysia
- one of the most common cancers in Malaysia
- there were 38,836 cancer admissions to government hospitals in 1998 [ie 15 MOH hospitals excluding district hospitals]
- lung cancer was the commonest cause of cancer admission among adult males [which means we don't have to worry about adult females getting lung cancer]
-  Cancer of the trachea, bronchus and lung is listed as the leading cause of cancer death in Malaysia  [affected is the respiratory system and 3 major sites - the trachea, bronchus and lungs; can try pull out images from Radiology PACS and collate that with Pathology biopsy slides with all the different stainings; can also do height, body mass, BMI and other parameters on the patients physical attributes (anthropometry); then do Artificial Intelligence (AI) for selecting young smokers and work on their potential for lung cancer and get them on treatment earlier before cancer goes to a non reversible stage and cancer death becomes real; may have to co-plan for psychology and counseling for hard core young smokers]
- mortality rate is 2.48 per 100,000 population in 1999 based on deaths in government hospitals [should at least mention how many govt hospitals were used for the statistical analysis; with 10 years data prior to 1999 should be able to project data for next 10 years (1999-2010) and compare that to real mortality rate for 2010; can also do projection for the next 10 years (2010-2020)]
- lung cancer ranked fifth in males with a prevalence of 7.7 per 100,000 [ignore females for now; what are the 4 major killers in males?]
- lung cancer has an overall poor prognosis and low survival rate [the more reason to ban smoking in Malaysia. It is banned in USM Health Campus.]
- household community survey [what advice did the researchers give the smokers among family members? Among those smokers who were advised, how many did actually heed medical advice and totally quit? Was quiting ever surveyed? If not why not?]

Selected References:

1. Ministry of Health Malaysia.  Discharge rate and mortality rate in government hospitals per 100,000 population.  In: Malaysia’s Health 2000; Appendix 4: 293.
2. Ministry of Health Malaysia.  Cancer control.  In:  Annual report 1999; 132.
3. Ministry of Health Malaysia.  Mortality rate of malignant neoplasm/cancer per 100,000 population, Malaysia, 1999.  In: Indicators for monitoring and evaluation of strategy for health for all by the year 2000; Health Indicator No. 3.10, 2001; 78.
4. Lim KG.  Cancers.  In: A review of diseases in Malaysia.  2^nd edition 2001; 7: 79 – 85.
5. Norhayati O, et al.  Cancer statistics, HUSM 1985 – 1992.  Mal J Pathol 1994; 16: 103 (abstract No. P10).
6. Penang State Health Department.  Penang Cancer Registry 1996 statistical report.
7. Ismail Y, Zulkifli A, Zainol H.  Lung cancer in Kelantan.  Med J Malaysia 1990; 45: 220 – 4.

A Review of Diseases in Malaysia

Lim Kean Ghee, A Review of Diseases in Malaysia. 2001, Second edition. 456 pp. ISBN 983-40800-0-X. (RM80). Published by Lim Kean Ghee, 5, Upper Museum Road, Taiping 34000, Malaysia. E-mail: lknghee@pop.jaring.my

Dr Lim Kean Ghee is a consultant surgeon in private practice. He had previously served in the Ministry of Health (MOH) hospitals as medical officer and consultant surgeon.

The book is a compilation of diseases in Malaysia. It is a good resource since it covers most diseases and gives citations. Most of the information is not easily obtained elsewhere and often inaccessible to researchers.

The Preface gives an important message to all doctors who wish to practise in Malaysia. It reminds us that our medical textbooks are mostly written by doctors in Britain and United States whilst we try to apply such texts in our Malaysian context. While the diseases are similar the disease severity and pattern of disease spread are often dissimilar. Thus, our management of the same diseases cannot be similar and cannot be verbatim from such textbooks.

A second message in the Preface is prior research data of a locality would serve as basis for further research. Thus, this book captures prior research data for that purpose.

A third message in the Preface is for medical students to use the book to familiarise themselves with data for local diseases since they will rejoin and serve the Malaysian community upon graduation.

A fourth message in the Preface is for non medicos (including lawyers, researchers, etc) who need to quickly refresh themselves on knowledge of Malaysian diseases which we don't find in medical textbooks written by the West.

Reviews of the book are available online:

Singapore Medical Journal:
Singapore Med J 2006; 47(12) : 1101
http://www.sma.org.sg/smj/4712/4712br1.pdf

Malaysian Family Physician:
Malaysian Family Physician 2006; Volume 1, Number 1, page 45
http://www.e-mfp.org/v1n1/book_review.htm

Medical Journal of Malaysia:
Reviewed by Akhtar Qureshi, International Medical University
Med J Malaysia Vol 57 No 2 June 2002
http://www.e-mjm.org/2002/v57n2/Diseases_in_Malaysia.pdf


I actually bought this book because this was exactly what I needed for research and writing. I needed past health & disease data to verify disease patterns and spread in order to account for the high number of deaths resulting from malaria prior to, during and after the Japanese war. The postwar period up till Merdeka also recorded many deaths from malaria among the Malay families so far under study. I am a bit upset about our past health and disease statistics and accounts by families as in none of the narratives by the families have they mentioned quinine which we know the Malay people use for malaria. I am most concerned about malaria since I grew up in Malaysia after the Independence when malaria was the number one killer before heart disease superseded it. We had to use mosquito nets at night and also use ubat nyamuk made from cow dung to fumigate our bedrooms at night. So bad was the situation with malaria that I also had a classmate who died of malaria in 1972 in Malacca. We were 14. Measures to destroy the Anopheles mosquito breeding grounds were stepped up and malaria was then well-controlled. Malaria is non existent in Malaysia today. Even Gua Musang in Kelantan has ceased to report any malaria cases - the last being in the early 1980s. When I worked with Hospital USM Diagnostic Labs in 1983-5 I didn't hear of any malaria cases. Researchers from outside Malaysia still come to want to do "malaria research" in Malaysia when malaria has been non existent for so long now. The last group of "mosquito researchers" was an Australian group that came to our Routine Lab in Chemical Pathology in 1994 to try and determine serum electrolytes for malaria cases when they hoped to get such cases from Gua Musang but the entire research came to nought! Haven't they read about Malaysia before coming? They should read this book then.

The Identification of the Common Anophelines of Malai and Thailand

Taken from http://knol.google.com/k/rajani-p/malaria/21p64adxvkkqh/4#

Dr AA Sandosham was the Officer-in-charge of the Bogyaku Kenkyu Shitsu. He wrote Malaria in Malai, A handbook for antimalaria students. It was published by the Syonan Tokubetu-Si and was printed by Messrs GH Kist & Co, Ltd, Singapore. 2605 (Lee 2005:102).

Ref:
1. Lee, Edmund JD. To Sail Uncharted Seas. 2005. National University of Singapore. ISBN 981-4138-33-9.

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Identification of the common anopheles of Malai and Thailand [1945]

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat

by AA Sandosham

Bogyaku Kenkyu Shitsu. Booki-Ka, Syonan Tokubetu-Si. Published by the Syonan TokubetuSi. Printed by Messrs. G. H. Kiat & Co., Ltd., Syonan.

Source: mms.elibraryhub.com/SHC/NLBHB/020003334.pdf

More information on malaria can be found here:
http://knol.google.com/k/rajani-p/malaria/21p64adxvkkqh/4#

Committee of Penang Festival ’86. Well-Known Persons. In: Historical Personalities of Penang 1986

Committee of Penang Festival ’86. Well-Known Persons. In: Historical Personalities of Penang. Phoenix Press Sdn Bhd, Penang. 1986. Pp. 173-179.

Faridah Abdul Rashid

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Inter Library. Loan, PHT	Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:25 AM
To: faridah
salam Artikel yang dimohon seperti berikut telah diproses. 1) City Council of Georgetown, Penang. Penang Past and Present, 1786-1963. 1966. Ganesh Printing Works. 17 pp. 2) Committee of Penang Festival ’86. Well-Known Persons. In: Historical Personalities of Penang. Phoenix Press Sdn Bhd, Penang. 1986. Pp. 173-179. Terima Kasih MOHD AFIZULL AHMAD Bahagian Perhubungan Pelanggan Perpustakaan Hamdan Tahir USM Kampus Kesihatan 16150 Kubang Kerian Kota Bharu, Kelantan Tel: 09-7671468 Faks: 09-7651823

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Inter Library. Loan, PHT	Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:34 PM
To: faridah
salam Artikel yang bertajuk "Committee of Penang Festival" telah diperolehi. Prof boleh datang mengambilnya di PHT mulai hari ini. Terima Kasih MOHD AFIZULL AHMAD Bahagian Perhubungan Pelanggan Perpustakaan Hamdan Tahir USM Kampus Kesihatan 16150 Kubang Kerian Kota Bharu, Kelantan Tel: 09-7671468 Faks: 09-7651823

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Faridah Abdul Rashid	Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:05 PM
To: "Inter Library. Loan, PHT"
Wa'alaikumussalam, InsyaAllah, saya datang sekejap lagi. TQ Prof Faridah 2011/4/25 Inter Library. Loan, PHT <interlib@kk.usm.my>

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"Well-Known Personalities" 1986, Penang

Dr Haji Abdullah Ghani bin Mohamed (born 1906) - Senior Health Officer, Penang and Province Wellesley. Committee Member, Penang Malay Association.

 

Habib Marican Noordin, J.P.

Allen Dennys & Co in Beach Street, Penang

Hamid Khan - teacher at Penang Free School for 30 years. PFS was in George Town before a new school was built in Green Lane and has since remained.

Mr RA Hogan - lawyer in 1970s. Hogan Road is named after him. ***** Hu Shih Min - Second and last Kapitan China of Penang. Dr Hutton - Only registered doctor in Penang in 1805. Hutton Lane was named in his honour. ***** Pak Itam - A contemporary of Syed Shaik Alhadi.

M Puteh bte Hassan M? Why use 'Bte' for a male? Should be M Puteh bin Hassan M.

Shaik Mohamed Shaffe bin Shaik Mohamed (born 1892) - Secretary of the Crescent Star Sports Club. Prominent in sports, athletics and football (soccer). ***** Shaik Tahir Jalaludin - astrologer and theologian. Teacher and imam in Masjidil Haram in Makkah (the grand mosque in Makkah). Father of Tan Sri Hamdan Tahir, former Vice Chancellor of USM. **** Shaik Zakaria Basheer Omar - religious teacher, first Mufti and founder of Almashoor (first religious school in Penang)

K. Sultan Merican - teacher, publisher, Islamic activator, journal "Islamic Voice of Malaya". Isn't this the father of Tan Sri Ismail Merican, 13th DG MOH Malaysia (who recently retired)?

Syed Shaik Alhadi - writer and reformist. Started Arabic School on Tek Soon Street, Penang. This is the grandfather of Dr Syed Mohamed Alhady. ****** Captain Syed Salleh Alsagoff (1880-1959) was a captain in Penang Volunteer Researve, Malay Company and Kelantan Field Force. Involved in the Tok Jenggid Rebellion at Kelantan. I think it should be Tok Janggut (i.e., referring to his beard). ****** There's a photo of Tok Janggut being hung upside down in the WWII Museum in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. It is humiliating to see a pious Muslim dressed only in his loin cloth (pants) and hung upside down. The present belief is it was not Tok Janggut but someone else who took his place. Tok Janggut was never hung. Salah macam mana pun kita tak akan gantung orang Islam macam tu, iaitu upside down.

Thessin Salleh Layu - Malay Surveyor of Ceylon Malay origin

External link

http://alkhauf.blogspot.com/2011/09/mahani-musa-universiti-sains-malaysia.html

The Malays by Anthony Milner (2008)

Anthony Milner, The Malays (2008)



Faridah Abdul Rashid

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chapters 5 and 6
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Wan Emilin	Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:23 PM
To: Faridah Abdul Rashid
----- Original Message ----- From: Faridah Abdul Rashid To: Wan Emilin Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 4:56 PM Subject: Re: pdf Thinking about 'the Malays' and 'Malayness' * Salam Wan Emilin, TQ untuk segera hantar Chapter 1, saya amat gembira dapat membacanya hari ini. Saya ingin tahu adakah kita boleh mendapatkan bab-bab yang lain? Saya tahu ada versi 2010 yang sudah keluar. Boleh ke dapatkan Front Matter nya? TQ Prof Faridah 2010/10/18 Wan Emilin <emilin@kck.usm.my> Salam, Prof. Faridah, Dilampirkan artikel dari Wiley Online Library seperti yang diminta. Chapter 1. Thinking about ‘the Malays’ and ‘Malayness’ Anthony Milner Visiting Professor Sekian, terima kasih. ~~  Rakan Maklumat Anda  ~~ Wan Emilin W. Mat Alli Bahagian Rujukan & Penyelidikan Perpustakaan Hamdan Tahir USM Kampus Kesihatan Tel: 09-767 1478 Emel: emilin@kck.usm.my Laman sesawang : http://www.kck.usm.my/pustaka -- Professor Dr Faridah Abdul Rashid Dept of Chemical Pathology School of Medical Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysia 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan Malaysia Tel: +609-767 6484 Fax: +609-765 3370 http://chempath.blinkweb.com/index.html http://faridah.businesscard2.com http://theearlymalaydoctors.blogspot.com/ http://bioinformatiko.blogspot.com/ 2 attachments the malays ch4.pdf 325K the malays ch5.pdf 438K

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Muslims in Malaya: Annual Report of United Islamic Association

Information contributed by Izrin Muaz bin Md Adnan, CenPRIS, USM, Penang
Received Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 2:39 PM

MUSLIMS IN MALAYA

Annual Report of United Islamic Association

Reference source:

Straits Times
26 August 1924, p. 12.


Link:
http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19240826.2.86.aspx


From Izrin Muaz:

1. I think it reveals quite a bit about the social role of Muslim doctors in Islamic propagation in early 20th century Malaya.  
2. There is mention of Dr HS Moonshi and Dr Shaik Ibrahim.