Browsing JSSISI: 1900 to 1906, Vol. XI, Parts LXXXI to LXXXVI by Date of Publication
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The forestry question considered historically
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)The main object of this paper is not to re-state the case for forestry in Ireland, but to recall public attention to the subject; and in doing so to endeavour to throw light on the solution of a preliminary difficulty ... -
Suggested substitutes for the present Poor Law system
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)The continual complaints in Great Britain and Ireland of the inefficiency and extravagance of the Poor Law System, have been accentuated of late by the labour crisis and want of employment. Criticisms abound and ... -
The principal results of the census of the United Kingdom in 1901
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)I have selected as my subject "The Principal Results of the Census of the United Kingdom in 1901." The Census was taken in England and Scotland under the Census (Great Britain) Act, 1900, which applied equally to England ... -
A plea for tillage farming on co-operative lines
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)I must first of all apologise for the type of paper I am privileged to read before you tonight. It must be to a certain extent, egotistical, it must be in the nature of a proposition, and I must ask you to believe what ... -
The social legislation of 1904 - registration of clubs (Ireland); licensing (England): applicability of it to Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)The public general Statutes passed in the Session of 1904, are only thirty-six in number, and are contained in one hundred and three pages of print. Amongst these are four measures of considerable importance in social ... -
Proposals for a new Labourers' Bill: an attempt to solve the rural housing question in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)We have now had more than 20 years experience of the attempt to provide habitable houses for labourers in country districts in Ireland, by means of an elaborate code of seven Statutes, beginning with the Labourers' Act ... -
Licensing and publichouse reform in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)"No apology is, I think, needed for introducing this subject to the consideration of the Society, although I could wish that the task had fallen to one more conversant with it than I am. The evils of intemperance are ... -
Municipal trading
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)One of the most strongly-marked characteristics of the older school of British Political Economy was its intense jealousy of State interference with the processes of industry or with the course of trade. From Adam Smith ...
