COATHAM – Convalescent Home Home of the Good Samaritan

Accreditation The Redcar & Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 20/10/1871

HOME OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN

     The prospectus has been issued announcing the intention of the promoters of the Convalescent Home to build a hospital for sick children, to be conducted in the same spirit and principles as the Convalescent Home. The site adjoins the Home, and the estimated cost of the building is £1,000.

     The Sisters in charge of the home for Sick Children has started to receive many cash and other items, furnishings, linen, crockery, clothing and numerous other items.

Accreditation The Redcar & Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 27/10/18171

SEASIDE HOME FOR SICK
CHILDREN
COATHAM, REDCAR,
YORKSHIRE
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LADY PATRONESSES:-

The Countess of Cottenham.
The Dowager Viscountess Downe.
Lady Susan Vernon Harcourt.

Lady Harriet C. Duncombe.

Lady Lowther.

The Honble Mrs. Kenyon.

Mrs. Worsley, of Hovingham.

Mrs. Newcomen.

Mrs. Pennyman.

Mrs. Bewicke Bewicke

HON. MEDICAL STAFF:-

J. H. Bennett, Esq., M.D.

J. Ellerton, Esq., M.D.

T.W.S. Locke, Esq., M.R.C.S

     The Seaside Home for Sick Children owes its origin to the unrelieved necessities of the sick children of the poor, and dates its commencement from July in the present year, when a cottage facing the sea, was rented by the Sisters of the Cottage Hospital at Middlesbro’, and, by the kindness of visitors and friends in the neighbourhood, was furnished with cribs and cots for the reception of ten children.

     The want of such a Home by the sea has long been felt and testified to by the shocking mortality amongst children of the poor and lower middle class. Many thousands of young lives are sacrificed year after year in our great manufacturing towns, falling victim to zymotic, scrofulous, and other disorders of which it is computed that two thirds would yield to medical treatment if backed by careful nursing and the influence of sea air.

     To check, in some degree, this waste of human life; to stem, if possible, this torrent of death, and to afford to the families of the labouring and mechanic classes some of those remedial advantages which are so much prized and so freely employed by the upper classes of society, this Seaside Home for Sick Children is now sought to be established on a wider and more permanent basis than is possible in its present situation. A fine site of half an acre, with a frontage commanding an extensive view of the sea – to which there is an uninterrupted access, and possessing also, on the other side, the advantage of a warm southern aspect, has been generously presented by A. H. Turner Newcomen, Esq., and designs for a suitable building for the reception of children are in the course of preparation by T. Hodgson Fowler, Esq., Architect to the Dean and Chapter of Durham.

     The work has the entire sanction of the Vicar of the Parish, the personal assistance of many kind resident ladies, and the attendance, which are rendered gratuitously.

     Children free from infectious diseases, are received from infancy to the age of 14, at a charge of 5s. per week (which charge is dispensed with in those cases in which extreme poverty and friendliness make the payment of even this sum impossible), and the usual privileges are accorded to subscribers.

     The promoters of this charitable scheme, relying upon Divine aid, confidently appeal to the sympathies of the benevolent public for encouragement and assistance to enable them to commence the permanent structure of the Seaside Home for Sick Children at Coatham.

      Donations towards the building fund, annual subscriptions, &c., may be sent by crossed cheques or P.O.O. to

SISTER MARY
The Seaside Home for Sick Children

Coatham, Redcar; to

Mrs. BEWICKE BEWICKE.

Coulby Manor, Middlesbro’; or to the

Revd. A. E. CLEMENTI-SMITH.

Coatham House, Coatham, Redcar.