| Description | File consists of 2 items; the first is a typed and signed quantity surveyor’s report by A Edward Smith, F S I [Fellow of the Surveyors Institute], Chartered Quantity Surveyor, 19 Upper Merrion Square, Dublin to Messrs W H Byrne and Son, Architects, 20 Suffolk Street, Dublin, regarding the ‘proposed alteration of old chapel block into additional wards etc. and addition of a new sanitary annexe adjoining old staircase block (all to left hand wing of hospital) at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital for the Reverend Mother’. Report includes approximation of costs for proposed work and notes on work required to convert the old chapel (26 April 1938; 4p). The second item is a typed and signed letter from A F Cooney, Secretary, Hospital’s Commission, 52 Upper Mount Street Dublin to the Reverend Superioress, Mater Hospital Dublin regarding the ‘proposed reconstruction of former chapel’ and outlining the Commission’s recommendation to the project (24 May 1938; 1p). |