Ella Campbell Scarlett (22 November 1864 – 30 October 1937) was an English physician who was the first woman medical practitioner in Bloemfontein, South Africa and the first woman doctor at the Royal Columbian Hospital in Canada.
On 14 December 1901, she married Percy Hamilton Synge. At the time of the wedding she was 37 years old and Synge was 29 years old.
Career
In 1902, Scarlett traveled to Norvalspont, Cape Colony to serve, by government appointment, in the concentration camp as part of the Boer War.[4] Scarlett then moved to Bloemfontein, where she was part of a six-member committee appointed by the British Minister of War to investigate conditions in the concentration camps. Other members of the committee included Millicent Fawcett and Jane Elizabeth Waterston.[5] In 1903, Scarlett was assigned the position of doctor to Normal College and the Dames Instituut.
In 1907, Scarlett moved to Edmonton, Canada, for five years before moving to New Westminster. In 1915 Scarlett worked for the Canadian Red Cross teaching first aid and home nursing, as well as organising the first Women's Volunteer Reserve Corps of Canada[6] and becoming the first woman doctor at the Royal Columbian Hospital.[7] In August 1915, Scarlett traveled to Serbia to distribute medical supplies and visited British prisoner of war camps in Germany.[8] She died in 1937 in London.[9]
References
^England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975
