BIRTH
1931 - Jumabee Tulip (born 4 November 1931) is the eldest daughter of Dr Che Lah bin Md Joonos, an early Malay doctor. She was the eldest of 4 sisters by Dr Che Lah's first wife, Catherine Daisy de Coursey Bulner. She was known as Tulip to relatives and close friends, and as Tulip Che Lah (TCL) or Tulip Rashid (TR) to her students and colleagues.
This is my mother Tulip's birth certificate. I've tried my best to read the minute details and the cursive handwriting on the fragile photocopy. She was born on 4 November 1931 at Tanglin Hospital, the general hospital in Kuala Lumpur. She told me she was born a premature baby, and I believed her. WH Amour had registered her birth 6 days after she was born. Who was he? Why didn't her own father register his eldest daughter? Was he working outstation? Where did he work in November 1931? Why did her mother deliver at the general hospital? Who was attending to her mother? This copy of her birth certificate was obtained on 8 December 1931, about a month after she was born.
No. 42292 (Health 16)
FEDERATED MALAY STATES
Extract from Register of Births in the State of Selangor
Register No. and page.
55367-401582
Name as shown in the register.
Jumabee Tulip
Sex.
Female
Father's
Name.
Che Lah
Occupation.
Asst. Health Officer
Nationality.
Malay
Mother's
Maidename.
Maimumah Daisy Bulner
Nationality.
Ceylon Burgher
When born.
4th November, 1931
Where born.
Tanglin Hospital, Kuala Lumpur
Name, address and description of informant.
W. H. Amour
Date of registration.
10th November, 1931
Certified to be a true Extract from the Register of births in the State of Selangor.
Fee S1.
Kuala Lumpur,
8.12.1931
(Signature)
(Rubber stamp chop:
Register of Births and Deaths.
........... Selangor.)
(Signature)
Registrar of Births and Deaths
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The European Hospital became known as Bangsar Hospital.
Tanglin Hospital became a health centre.
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Published reports
The Straits Times, 28 July 1931, Page 12
HOSPITAL REFORM PROMISED.
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19310728-1.2.59.aspx
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Radiology in Malaya in the 1920s
ML Wastie
Med J Malaysia Vol 49 No 3 Sept 1994, pages 199-204
http://www.e-mjm.org/1994/v49n3/Radiology_1920s.pdf
Map of Tanglin Hospital (now Klinik Kesihatan Tanglin)
http://malaysia-maps.yellavia.com/medical-centres/kuala-lumpur/hospital-tanglin-2049/
https://www.google.com/search?q=hospital+tanglin+jalan+cenderasari
Klinik Kesihatan Tanglin in KL
http://medikonsep.com/completed-projects.php
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Information on Dr MJ Che Lah in my book,
Biography of The Early Malay Doctors 1900-1957 Malaya And Singapore, 2012, page 411.
