Background
Mr. Kuo was born in Fuzhou, Fujian, China, in 1894.
Mr. Kuo was born in Fuzhou, Fujian, China, in 1894.
Kuo James T. received his primary education under private tutors. He studied at the Normal Middle School in Fuzhou, graduating in 1911. Mr. Kuo studied English at the Fuzhou Y.M.C.A. School from 1912 to 1925. Later, attended the Medical College of Fujian Normal University and graduated in 1920 with Doctor of Medicine degree.
After graduation, Mr. Kou served at the Suzhou Hospital for several years. Then he went to Peking and joined the Peking Union Medical College. Kuo James T. was appointed a Chinese Medical Officer by the Shanghai Municipal Council in charge successively of the Indian Police Hospital, the Chinese Police Hospital, and the Municipal Isolation Hospital in 1924. He was granted long leave by the Council and dispatched to England to study tropical diseases and public health administration in the Liverpool Medical Institute in 1931.