Includes the following: list of subscriptions; copies of the treasurer's accounts ending Michaelmas 1769 and 1771; "The Expences of the Musick and Oratorio of the Messiah Performed in the Church of St Mary's the Great for the benefit of the Addenbrooke Hospital" June 1767 and June 1768. Indexed at back.
2 Jul 1766 Opening of Infirmary
21 Jul 1766 Mrs Perry volunteered her services
4 Aug 1766 Salary of Matron.
18 Aug 1766 Appointment of Mrs Ann Perry
8 Sep 1766 Purchase of sheets etc. and beds for Matron and Apothecary
15 Sep 1766 Mrs Perry to look for Maid Servants etc.
8 Oct 1766 Ordered that an advertisement be put in the paper saying ‘that the Hospital will be opened on Monday next for the Reception of as many Patients as can then be Conveniently admitted’.
13 Oct 1766 Ordered that ‘all patients who come recommended to the said Infirmary be there before 11 o’clock on Monday morning, or they cannot be admitted til the Monday following’.
13 Oct 1766 Advert for Nurses, porter and linen
27 Oct 1766 Burial of Sarah Shildrick
3 Nov 1766 Butchers order
10 Nov 1766 Keeping Mrs Shildricks money
17 Nov 1766 Hiring of various staff etc.
24 Nov 1766 Hiring of Elizabeth Flatman and Rebecca Dalton
1 Dec 1766 Matron ordered to buy 4 bed pans
1 Dec 1766 Appointment of Elizabeth Leyton
15 Dec 1766 Discharge of Elizabeth Leyton for being big with child
22 Dec 1766 Sarah Allen hired
12 Jan 1767 Matron ordered to buy a steelyard to weigh the meat after the Butcher.
19 Jan 1767 Ordered that in any Doubtful case the Physicians and Surgeons shall have power to open the Body of any Person Dying in the Infirmary without asking any Person Leave.
9 Feb 1767 Nurse Flatman and Sarah Allen Housemaid discharged. Wm. Bransford appointed and Hall the porter discharged
16 Feb 1767 Ruth Bentham taken on as a house maid
23 Mar 1767 Ordered that Daniel Eastrick be buried as cheap ad possible
25 May 1767 Ruth Bentham and the Porter discharged for irregularity.
1 Jun 1767 John Walton taken on as Porter; Ann Mays as House Maid
21 Sep 1767 Edward Bradshaw of Stamford hired as a Porter
27 Nov 1769 baths and charges
26 Feb 1770 Nurse Davis’s misconduct
28 June 1770 Swearing by staff
20 Nov 1770 Staff dismissed and Nurse Bridgeman in trouble
26 Nov 1770 Nurse Bridgeman discharged for selling wine, beer, cheese etc.
31 Dec 1770 Mrs Perry’s request for increase in salary dismissed