Browsing JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847- by Title
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On the relation between landlord and tenant in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1853)In venturing to direct the attention of this Society, for a short time, to certain provisions of law which now regulate the relation between landlord and tenant in this country, I feel that I am dealing with a subject ... -
On the relation between landlord and tenant in Ireland
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1853)In venturing to direct the attention of this Society, for a short time, to certain provisions of law which now regulate the relation between landlord and tenant in this country, I feel that I am dealing with a subject ... -
On the relation between the material welfare and moral training of the industrious classes
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)We live in an age of industrial progress; improvements and inventions in the different arts and sciences, have furnished unprecedented facilities for the production of luxuries and comforts of every kind. Yet side by ... -
On the relationship between objective and subjective social indicators: implications for social planning in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1979)This paper, while recognising the importance of objective social indicators for social planning, makes a case for the addition of subjective social indicators as a necessary complement. Furthermore, it is argued that ... -
On the reorganization of Irish education departments and the appointment of a minister of education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)The control of matters educational in Ireland is divided between the following nine boards:?the National Board, the Intermediate Board, the Endowed Schools' Board, Erasmus Smith's Schools' Board, the Incorporated Society, ... -
On the report of the Irish Lunacy Inquiry Commissioners, and the policy of extending the English law for the protection of neglected lunatics to Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)I need offer no apology for bringing this subject before the Society at the present time. It is three years since, in consequence of an invitation from a great English philanthropist (Sir Charles E. Trevelyan) to Mr. ... -
On the report of the Select Committee appointed ?to enquire and report whether any and what steps ought to be taken to simplify the title to land, and to facilitate the transfer thereof, and to prevent frauds on purchasers and mortgagees of land?, and on the first report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed ?to enquire into the law relating to the registration of deeds and assurances in Ireland?.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)To simplify the title to land and facilitate the transfer thereof must always be a subject of much interest in this country, where so large a proportion of the wealth of the inhabitants consists of land. I will therefore ... -
On the Scotch branch of the Poor Removal question
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)In the report of the Select Committee on Poor Removal of 1879 there is a very marked difference in the way in which the Scotch and English branch of the question was dealt with. -
On the self-dependence of the working classes under the law of competition
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)The view which I take is opposed to the opinions of some distinguished writers, among whom I regret to place Mr. John Stuart Mill. In various forms, through his work upon the "Elements of Political Economy," I find ... -
On the statistics of crime arising from or connected with drunkenness, as indicating the importance of increasing the punishment of habitual drunkards, and of those who seriously injure their children by what they spend on drink
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)In the discharge of my duty of reporting on criminal statistics in Ireland, some statistics have come under my notice which raise important questions as to the adequacy of the existing punishments for drunkenness. -
On the statistics of insanity, past and present
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)At this particular juncture in our social existence, when mental culture?the development of the intellectual faculties of mankind? claims pre-eminent consideration on all sides, and fills with anxiety the minds of the ... -
On the substitution for the three-fold law of succession resting on the accidents of tenure, of a three-fold law for distinct classes of (1) landed gentry, (2) manufacturers, and (3) farmers, resting on the scientific basis of the observed usages of these different classes as to wills and settlements
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)In the discussions which have taken place on the law of successions in the United Kingdom, it has been commonly assumed that there is a simple issue involved, and the only change recommended or discussed is to extend the ... -
On the system of deducting a "Per-centage" from the purchase money of estates sold with Parliamentary Title, with a view to the abolition of fees in Chancery
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1857)A Bill was prepared in the early part of last year to alter the constitution, procedure and practice, to increase the powers, and diminish the expense of in the Court of Chancery in Ireland and to discontinue the Incumbered ... -
On the temporary and the permanent business of friendly societies, with some suggestions for making the latter secure through the agency of the Post Office Insurance and Savings Bank departments
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)Friendly societies are formed to enable labourers by co-operation to guard against the vicissitudes of life?such as temporary want of employment, temporary sickness, old age, and death. Provision for temporary want of ... -
On the tenures and taxation of India
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1858)The government, in the greater part of India, being the sole landowner, and almost sole capitalist, is under the obligation of attending to many things which in Europe may be safely left to private enterprise. Public ... -
On the use and abuse of apprenticeship
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1861)Any satisfactory solution of the various questions arising out of the custom of apprenticeship, must be based on a species of statistical knowledge which nobody has been, as yet, at the trouble of collecting. But I also ... -
On the use of education and training in the treatment of the insane in public lunatic asylums
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)Pinel, who, in 1792, did so much to advance the disuse of mechanical restraint, and the substitution in its stead of moral influence and of kindness, has, with other valuable principles enunciated by him in reference to ... -
On the use of structural funds
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1993)Recent efforts to secure EC funding by Irish governments, and in particular Irish officials, have been a resounding success. A priori one might expect that the richest country would be the largest net contributor in GDP ... -
On the use of the doctrine of laissez faire, in investigating the economic resources of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)The natural resources of Ireland have furnished a favourite topic to Irish writers for the indulgence of national vanity; and the language of exaggeration has been too often applied in describing their extent and value. ... -
On the utility of making the ordnance survey the basis of a general register of deeds and judgments in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)In treating of the subject of this paper, I propose to direct your attention to the consideration of the following questions :? 1st, On what principle of classification should a general register of acts and deeds ...