JSSISI: 1894 to 1900, Vol. X, Parts LXXIV to LXXX: Recent submissions
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Prisons and prisoners - suggestions as to treatment and classification of criminals
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1899)The English Prison Commissioners in their Report for 1897 say:?"It is, perhaps, obvious, and, at the same time, it cannot too often be impressed on the public mind, that, under the law of the land, imprisonment in a ... -
The valuation of the city of Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1897)As an introduction to the question of the state of the valuation of the city of Dublin, I should wish to refer briefly to the work achieved by the Municipal Corporation since the passing of the Public Health Act of ... -
The want of industrial and practical education in Irish national schools.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1896)There is no doubt that the Irish people are behind the rest of the world in industries, and there is a concensus of opinion that the reason is the unindustrial and impractical character of our primary education. With ... -
The sanitary condition of our national schools
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1900)That the health of the individual and the community depends largely on their surroundings being sanitary is now universally admitted. That this rule is specially applicable to the young, is acknowledged by all sanitarians, ... -
Foreign legislation on behalf of destitute and neglected children
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1896)In a paper which I had the honour of reading some time ago before this Society, I gave some details as to the laws of various countries (especially America) on behalf of destitute children. I feel that some apology is ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: forty-seventh session 1893/1894
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: fifty-third session 1899/1900
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: fifty-second session 1898/1899
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: forty-eighth session 1894/1895
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Neglected children and neglectful parents
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1898)It seems to me quite impossible for those who do not, or who cannot, keep out of sight of the poorer classes, to resist the sad importunity with which the facts of life in our back streets and tenements for ever plead ... -
The Ulster tenant-right custom: its origin, characteristic and position under the Land Acts.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1894)Few subjects connected with Irish land have been the cause of more discussion than the Tenant-right Custom of Ulster. For many years before 1870 a controversy was carried on with respect to the attributes of the custom, ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: forty-ninth session 1895/1896
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Bimetallism
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1895)I have to apologise for bringing before such a Society as that which I now address a paper which I cannot help feeling deals inadequately with the great question of our future standard of value. To many of you my remarks ... -
Fifty years of Irish agriculture
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1899)In 1847, the year of the famine, the Government first collected for the information of Parliament very ample Irish Agricultural Statistics. Similar returns have been annually published ever since. The result of these ... -
The financial crisis in the United States, 1893-4
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1894)The year 1893 in America stands unique in that it presents an unrivalled record of failures of solvent banks, corporations, firms, and individuals in a country having unsurpassed facilities for production and distribution. ... -
The fluctuating character of modern employment.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1896)I could not but feel how much Political Economy is unfairly discredited by the fact that the authoritative text-books within the reach of the ordinary reader are quite out-of-date upon many modern problems of great ... -
Private bill procedure?(the Scotch Act of 1899)
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1900)Rarely has there been such a waste of Irish capital in Westminster as there has this year been. Hardly even have the efforts of promoters proved so futile, and of opponents so exhausting. The shareholders of some of ... -
Compulsory purchase as a substitute for the revision of judicial rents
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1894)A question has been frequently mooted, which must soon be determined, namely, what course the government will take in respect of judicial rents, which will shortly be legally capable of revision under the 8th section ... -
The revaluation of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1900)In dealing briefly with some of the questions raised before the Royal Commission on Local Taxation, now sitting in London, I feel sure that the opinion of all who have studied the problem at issue will be that, in so ... -
Our present and future water supply
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1894)Public attention has been directed to the water supply to the city and townships during the past year more than has been the case since the foundation of the Vartry system. It seemed to require some such event as the ...
