| Description | Oversize hard bound manuscript cash book listing receipts and payments from the Mater Misericordiae Hospital. The ledger is laid out as ‘Receipts’ and ‘Expenditures’ with monthly totals at the bottom. ‘Receipts’ entries are listed under the following headings: ‘Date’; ‘Particulars’; Ledger Folio’; ‘Total’; ‘Bank Lodgements’; ‘Subscriptions and Donations’; ‘Rents’; ‘Dividends’; ‘Farm Produce’; ‘Electrical Receipts’; Private Patients’; Nurses’ Earnings and Probation Fees’; ‘Unions’; ‘Collector’; and ‘Sundries’. All ‘Dividends’ are named and include companies and places such as the Canadian Pacific Railway; Rathmines Township; and Newry Port and Harbour Trust amongst others. All properties on which rent was received are named, as well as bequests to the Hospital which are marked ‘CB’ for ‘Central Bequest Office’ and list the deceased’s name and/or the estate name.
‘Payments’ are listed under the following headings: ‘Date’; ‘Particulars’; ‘Cheque No.’; ‘Ledger Folio’; ‘Total’; ‘Bread’; ‘Meat’; ‘Groceries’; ‘Milk and Butter’; ‘Eggs and Fish’; ‘Fruit and Vegetables’; ‘Stimulants’; ‘Fuel and Light’; ‘Laundry’; ‘Cleaning’; ‘Druggist’; ‘Farm Expenses’; ‘Furniture’; ‘Repairs’; ‘Linen Room’; ‘Surgical Appliances’; ‘Postage and Stationary’; ‘Telephone and Electric Bills’; ‘Salaries’; ‘Wages’; ‘Collector’; ‘Clothing for Poor’; ‘Electrical and Pathological Appliances’; ‘Rents, Rates, Taxes, Insurance’; ‘Annuities, Fees, and Law Costs’; and ‘Sundries’.
The ‘Payments’ section lists numerous Dublin businesses and companies such as Mountjoy Brewery, Carnegie Bros (Surgical Appliances), Becker Bros (Groceries), Millar and Beattie (Furniture), M Clarke (Meat), Centenary Co-Op Dairy, M Costello (Fishmongers), JJ Graham (Drugs), J Downes (Bread), Maguire and Gatchell (Repairs) amongst others; and other businesses such as Clerys and Company (furniture), Apothecaries Hall, Alliance Gas Company, and Dublin Steam Company Coal.
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