| Description | Hard bound manuscript account ledger of debit and credit accounts in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital for various businesses, properties and shares from 4 Apr 1887 to [c1] Oct 1933. An alphabetical index of accounts at front of ledger gives the folio page number, account name, when payment was due in, and whom paid by. There are two separate manuscript pages at the front of the ledger. The first lists the ‘Interests, Dividends, Rents etc.’ owed to and owed by the Hospital, and lists the various loans, with interest, to organisations noting whom they were lent to, when the repayments were due in, and whom paid by; bequests to the Hospital noting what the money was invested in, when payments were due in, and whom paid by; various rents and moieties on properties, and also dividends. The second manuscript page lists the ‘Grants, Annuities and Rents for Support of the Hospital’. The ledger is laid out in debit accounts and credit accounts with the yearly totals given. Most accounts are paid bi-annually, with the exception of salaries for the apothecary (p7), house surgeon (p20), house physician, pathologist (p21), chaplain (p12) and anaesthetist [formerly chloroformist] (p37) paid monthly. Accounts include: War Stock; loan to St Vincent’s, Golden Bridge; shares in Abbé Daney Fire Extinguisher Company; investments in Rathmines and Rattigan Township; loan to Baggot Street Training College; Dublin Corporation; Lord Fingall; repayments on a loan from M Hussey Esquire, Westown, County Meath; St Michael’s Hospital, Kingstown [Dun Laoghaire]; Saint Joseph’s Night Refuge, Brickfield Lane; [?Thallarl] –‘per treasurer of Royal Hospital for Incurables’; government stock; railway stock; Grand Canal Preference shares; Loughrea and Attymon Light Railway shares; West Clare Railway shares per Mr Ryan’s bequest; Industrial School Golden bridge; Anglo-Argentine tramway; Great Northern Railway and Royal Canal shares; Japanese Government bonds; Canadian Pacific Railway; Dublin Port and Docks Board; Duffy Debentures; Brisbane Electric Tramways Investment Company; Howth and Clontarf Tramway; Dublin United Tramways Company Limited; Newry Port and Harbour Trust; Kingstown Urban District stock; Arthur Guinness Company Limited; New General [?Tractor] Company Limited; Midland Railway Company; Lifebelt Coffee Company Limited; Kilbeggan Estate; P A Smith Trust; and James Duffy Limited.
Rental properties include: Wicklow Street; 72 Summerhill; St. Columba’s Cottage; Cecilia Street; ‘Clinch Houses’ from the Clinch bequest; Eccles Street; rent from Leigh’s estate; rent from O’Reilly estate; ‘rent of plot of ground North Circular Road’; head rent to Magee College; Lincoln Place; and moiety of rental from lands of Cornelius Swiney, Cork.
Bequests (which came through Charitable Bequest Office) include: Edwin Sanderson; Mr Bourke; Miss Cruise; Mr Egan; Dean Hayes; M A McOwen; Mr Nolan; Reverend F O’Connell; E Bourke; Mr Blayney; Murphy’s Charity; Moran Charity; Pierce O’Donnell; Mr Weir; Fitzpatrick Charity; Mrs Maria Donnelly; P J Dunne Charity; D J Mulligan; R J McDermott Charity; Bernard Kiernan Charity; Murray Charity; Doctor Laurence O’Reilly charity.
Enclosures include: 1 manuscript page noting that masses are to be offered for the repose of 4 named individuals following a donation in 1864 ([c1920]; 1p); two printed and typed letters on headed notepaper of James Duffy & Company Limited, Publishers, 38 Westmoreland Street, Dublin to Sister M Callista, Superioress, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, concerning the payment of interest on stock in the company by the Sisters of Mercy, Carysfort Park, signed by E Donelan, Secretary (25 Feb 1920; 2p); 2 printed and manuscript letters on headed notepaper from Newry Port and Harbour Trust, Harbour Office, Newry, from Edward Lamb, Secretary, to Mary Farrell, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin regarding the suspension of payments of interest by the Trust; signed by Edward Lamb (1 Oct, 16 Oct 1919; 2p).
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