| Description | Large hard bound printed and manuscript cash book listing debit and credit accounts from the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin. The ledger is laid out as ‘Receipts’ and ‘Payments’ with monthly balanced totals at the bottom. ‘Receipts’ entries are listed under the following headings: ‘Date’; ‘Total’; ‘Subscriptions and Donations’; ‘Other Voluntary Gifts’; ‘Private Patients’; ‘Out Patients’; ‘Approved Societies’; ‘Other Sources’; ‘Public Authorities’; ‘Nurses and Probationers’ Fees’; ‘Government Grants etc.’; ‘Interest and Dividends’; ‘Rents’; ‘Farm Receipts’; ‘X-Ray, Massage and Electrical Receipts’; ‘Bequests’; ‘City Collector’; and ‘Sundries’. The headings ‘Bank Lodgements’ appears from January 1934 onwards, and ‘In-Patients’ appears from 1937 onwards.
‘Payments’ are listed under the following headings: ‘Date’; ‘Cheque No.’; ‘Total’; ‘Provisions’ – ‘Farm’ ‘Meat, Fish and Poultry’; ‘Eggs, Milk and Bread’, ‘Fruit and Vegs [Vegetables]’, ‘Butter and Groceries’; ‘Minerals and Liquors’, and ‘Other Items’. ‘Surgery and Dispensary’ – ‘Drugs, Chemicals’, ‘Dressings and Bandages’; ‘Salaries and Wages’, ‘Instruments and Appliances’; and ‘Sundries’. ‘Domestic’ – ‘Renewals, Repairs, F’ture [Furniture]’, ‘Linen and Bedding’; ‘Laundry’, ‘Light, Heating and Power’; ‘Maintenance’ – ‘Medical Salaries’; ‘Nursing Salaries’; ‘Other Employees’, ‘Pension and Annuities’; ‘Administration’ – ‘Salaries’, ‘Printing and Postage’; ‘Audit Fees, Law Costs’, ‘Sundries’; ‘Repairs and Renewals to Building and Plant’; ‘Insurance, Building and Furniture’, ‘Farm Wages and Expenses’; ‘Interest’, ‘Extraordinary Expenditure’; ‘Rents, Rates and Telephones’, ‘Poor’ [‘Clothing for Poor’]; ‘Sundries’, and ‘Chapel’. There was different coloured ink used for each heading from 1937 in order to differentiate between entries. Headings also change order throughout the course of the ledger with some crossed out and new ones added in such as ‘National Health Insurance’ which appears from 1938 onwards. On the final two pages of the book are one year totals for both income and expenditure listing October, November, December, 3 month, 9 month and complete totals for both sides under headings such as ‘Receipts for Services Rendered’, ‘Invested Property’, ‘Extraordinary Expenditure’ , ‘Surgery and Dispensary’ and ‘Administration’.
Under ‘Receipts’ all securities, investments and bequests are named, whilst under ‘Payments’ all companies and businesses used are named, with the reason for payment noted beside.
Enclosure is a printed and manuscript page from another financial ledger with partial totals written in ink [c1940]; 1p).
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