Fryatt Memorial Hospital

The memorial to Captain Fryatt

Fryatt Memorial Hospital, previously known as Harwich and District Hospital opened in Dovercourt in a large house in 1922, which was converted into a twelve bedded cottage hospital. ^[1] It was also known as Harwich and Dovercourt Hospital. ^[2] By 1925, the hospital was referred as the Harwich and District Hospital and Fryatt Memorial ^[1] after Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt, a Harwich Mariner who was executed in Bruges in 1916 after he tried to ram a German U-boat during the First World War with his civilian boat. ^[3] Fryatt had a state funeral in St Paul's Cathedral, London. ^[4] The hospital was eventually enlarged to have 26 beds. In 1925 a new wing was opened which contained two private wards, a ward for men, an operating theatre, nurses accommodation. The hospital was pulled down in the early twenty-first century. This was replaced with a new hospital Harwich and District Hospital which opened in 2006. ^[5] Although informally known as the Fryatt Hospital, it was formerly renamed as the Fryatt Memorial Hospital in 2019. ^[4]

Notable staff

• Clarita Carmen Sable (1883–1964) Matron, 1926 ^[6] - until at least 1946. ^{[7] [8]} Sable trained at The London Hospital under Eva Luckes between 1913 and 1917. ^[9] For the last two years of her training Sable worked as a staff nurse at the hospital and also for the hospitals Private Nursing Institution. ^{[10] [11]} Sable joined the College of Nursing in 1919. ^{[12] [13]} During the Second World War she oversaw the care of casualties of war, alongside organising regular civilian care. ^[12]

References

1. "Staff with stretchers, splints, and crutches in a store at the Harwich and District Hospital and Fryatt Memorial". Historic England. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
2. Sable, Clarita C., Register: RG101/1515i; 1939 England and Wales Register for Harwich, Essex; The National Archives, Kew [Available at: www.ancestry.co.uk, accessed on 25 November 2018].
3. Sullivan, Oliver (19 February 2019). "Victorian hospital once used to treat First World War soldiers sold off". East Anglia Daily Times. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
4. King, Lorraine (7 July 2019). "Harwich Hospital to be official named after Captain Fryatt". Harwich and Manningtree Standard.
5. Leate, Frances (2 April 2008). "Harwich, Dovercourt: 'Let down' over hospital". Daily Gazette and Essex County Standard. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
6. "Appointments; Matrons". The Nursing Times : 910. 9 October 1926 – via www.rcn.org.
7. Sable, Clarita Carmen, Masseuse Register, 1946, 422; UK, Physiotherapy and Masseuse Registers, 1895–1980; Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Registers, Wellcome Library, London, England [Available at: www.ancestry.co.uk, accessed on 25 November 2018]
8. Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons'? A study of Eva Lückes's influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022)
9. Clarita Carmen Sable, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/20, 39; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
10. Clarita Carmen Sable, Register of Sisters and Nurses; RLHLH/N/4/4, 109; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London.
11. Clarita Carmen Sable, Private Nursing Institution Register, July 1916 – February 1917; RLHLH/N/5/30, 114; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
12. "Fryatt Memorial Hospital, Harwich, in War-Time". Nursing Times . 36 (1855): 1192–1193. 16 November 1940 – via www.rcn.org.
13. Sable, Clarita Carmen, Register of Nurses, 1916–1921; The College of Nursing, 1921, 468; The Nursing Registers, 1898–1968 [Available at: www.ancestry.co.uk, accessed on 25 November 2018]