JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847-: Recent submissions
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What are the causes of the distressed state of the Highlands of Scotland?
(Belfast Social Inquiry Society, 1852)It will not be necessary for me to occupy much of your time in adducing evidence of the nature and extent of the distressed state of the poorer classes in the Highlands of Scotland. To account for this distress, many of ... -
What are the causes of the prosperous agriculture in the Lothians of Scotland?
(Belfast Social Inquiry Society, 1852)The subject to which I propose to direct your attention in this paper is expressed in the following question :? What are the causes of the prosperous agriculture in the Lothians of Scotland ? You have all, no doubt, heard ... -
On the connexion of atmospheric impurity with disease
(Belfast Social Inquiry Society, 1852)In the observations I am about to make, the subject may be said to resolve itself into one of bodily health, or wellbeing, or the best means of avoiding those departures from integrity and soundness, which we term ... -
The sanitary state of Belfast, with suggestions for its improvement
(Belfast Social Inquiry Society, 1852)Having devoted earnest attention for several years past to the sanitary circumstances of this town, and having observed certain uniform results and conditions in its vital statistics connected with its physical state, ... -
The dangerous and perishing classes
(Belfast Social Inquiry Society, 1852)If children are allowed to grow up in misery, subject from the cradle to want, wretchedness, and ill usage ? if they are cut off from opportunities of learning religion ? if they hear no word of kindness, experience no ... -
On public parks in connexion with large towns, with a suggestion for a park in Belfast
(Belfast Social Inquiry Society, 1852)The importance of public parks and other open spaces in large towns is such as scarcely to admit of debate, yet the consideration of some of the advantages resulting from them cannot fail to be a matter of interest. ... -
On the best means of giving increased facility to the transfer of land
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1853)Amongst all the various sources of national wealth, undoubtedly land is the one of most importance ; and though we may not be disposed to go the length of the school of French economists who regarded it as the only real ... -
On the connection between the condition of tenant farmers and the laws respecting the ownership and transfer of land in Ireland
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1853)Few subjects have engaged so much of the public attention in Ireland as the condition of the tenant farmers, and it is generally admitted that the present laws, and the practice generally prevailing with respect to the ... -
Celtic migrations
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1853)In that remote age of which no personal records remain, but whose history may be derived from the known dispersion of races and languages ? as the geologist, from fragments of rock, traces the events of the primeval ... -
Statistics of Australia
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1854)The material improvement in our Australian colonies, since the discovery of gold in that region of the earth, being, I believe, unexampled in the history of our race, I have thought that a few statistics, drawn from ... -
Trades' unions and combinations in 1853
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1853)Being desirous of obtaining authentic information with respect to the present character and prevalence of combinations among the working classes, I have endeavoured to possess myself of it by personal inquiry from persons ... -
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 ... -
Statistics of poor relief in England and Wales for the year 1851, compiled from the fourth annual report of the Poor Law Board
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1853)The expenditure for the relief of the poor in England and Wales during the year ended Lady-day, 1851, amounted to #4,962,704, being a decrease of #432,318, or 8 per cent, as compared with the expenditure of the preceding ... -
On a decimal currency
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1853)In many essays which have lately appeared on the subject of a decimal currency, the distinction has not been sufficiently observed which exists between a decimal coinage and a decimal currency; between a system of coins ... -
The Wine Duties and their effects on the commercial relations between the British Dominions and France
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1853)In the following paper I propose to lay before you a summary of the history of the wine duties, and of the present condition of the trade, chiefly with reference to our commercial relations with France. Although these ... -
Land tenure and economic development, a study of the economic consequences of land registration in Kenya's smallholder areas
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1971)This paper presents some of the findings from a research project for the Queen's University of Belfast which aimed at examining the interrelationship between land tenure reform and economic change with reference to ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twentieth session, fifth to eight meetings - 1867
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: fortieth session, fifth to seventh meetings -1886/1887
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirty fourth session, first to third meetings, 1880/81
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirty fourth session, fourth & fifth meetings ? 1880/81
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
