JSSISI: 1864 to 1868, Vol. IV, Parts XXVI to XXXIV: Recent submissions
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Co-operation as a means of improving the condition of the working classes
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)I apprehend it will be admitted by all our members that few other subjects than the one which I have chosen are more important in their nature, or more in accordance with the purposes for which our Association was ... -
The application of commercial enterprise to the construction of railways
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)At a late meeting of the Society Dr. Hancock exhibited a very suggestive table, showing the unsatisfactory financial position of Irish Railways. It must have occurred to many at the time that a similar table of the ... -
The extension of the field for the employment of women
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)In order to bring out clearly the results of the teachings of reason and of experience on the question of extending the field of women's industry, I shall place before you a brief summary of the arguments on both sides, ... -
The Government Assurance and Annuity Acts, 16& 17 Vic. cap 45; 27 & 28 Vic. cap. 43
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)The habit of Life Assurance is now almost universal among the wealthier classes, who every day appreciate its uses more and more; but unfortunately its benefits rarely reach the poor, who stand much more in need of them. ... -
Banking considered with special reference to a strictly limited issue of government paper money
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)I propose to bring under your consideration the subject of Banking with special reference to a strictly limited issue of Government Paper Money. -
The condition of our railways considered with reference to their purchase by the state
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)The condition of the Railways of Great Britain and Ireland has for the past few years increasingly occupied public attention. It has caused much dissatisfaction both to the public and to the shareholders?to the public ... -
The financial position of Irish railways
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)Mr. William John Hancock exhibited the following Tables, compiled by Dr. Hancock, to shew the financial position of Irish Railways, and explained the views of Dr. Hancock in respect of the statistics thus shown. It ... -
Notes on the French system of railways
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)At the present time, when there is a good deal of interest taken in the question of railways, it appears to me that a short account of the French railway system may be interesting. -
The relation of the state to the railways
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)A notion, however, appears still to exist, that State intervention for the purpose of making railways more useful would be "a relaxation of the strict principles of political economy, to be justified, if at all, only ... -
Address by the Vice-president at the opening of the Twentieth Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)It has appeared to me most beneficial, as well as most simple, that your attention should be called on this occasion to the third branch of our objects, to wit, that of Public Health, a subject which although but of ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: seventeenth session 1864: eighth meeting
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: seventeenth session 1864: fourth to seventh meetings
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: seventeenth session 1863/1864: first, second and third meetings
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On criminal statistics; especially with reference to population education and distress in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)In the session of this Society in 1860-61,I availed myself of the admirably arranged returns of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, to bring before the Society some of the aspects of crime in this city, especially in regard ... -
Free-trade: abolition of customs and excise duties; and a sketch of a simpler and better mode of raising a Revenue
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)Among those many useful topics to which I have alluded, the discussion of Free-trade, and its partial adoption by us, and other nations, has been attended with many beneficial results. It is my main object in this paper ... -
Report to the council on the impediments to express contracts as to the occupation of land in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1866)The following Report has been prepared by direction of the Council, in consequence of an application from Jonathan Pim, Esq., M.P., Vice-President, to institute an inquiry into the following subject:? A Report as to the ... -
The unhealthiness of Irish towns, and the want of sanitary legislation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1866)In Waterford, Dr. Mackesy, and in Cork, Mr. W. d'E. Parker, have procured an expression of public opinion that a similar act is desirable in those cities, and I, being desirous that other towns should share the blessings ... -
Report of the council at the opening of the nineteenth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1866)The Council, with much confidence, renew on this, the commencement of the nineteenth session of the Society, the congratulations offered to the members on many similar occasions. Taking an active and useful part in the ... -
A comparison between the English and Irish Poor Laws with respect to the conditions of relief
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)I do not propose in this paper to examine the question, on which so much may be said, of the policy of a more liberal outdoor relief in the present condition of Ireland. My object is simply to state, as correctly as I ... -
On the necessity of a state provision for the education of the deaf and dumb, the blind, and the imbecile
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)Your attention has already been called to the "necessity of a state provision for the education of the Deaf and Dumb of Ireland." My object on the present occasion is to call your attention again to this subject, and ...
