Browsing JSSISI: 1942 to 1947, Vol. XVII, Sessions 96th to 100th by Date of Publication
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Financial results on sixty-one West Cork farms in 1940-'41
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1942)In this paper a summary is given of the financial results achieved on 61 farms in a West Cork creamery district (about nine miles west of Clonakilty), during the year ended 30th April, 1941. In presenting the summary, ... -
Advertising
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)In submitting this paper on the subject of Advertising I would make it clear that although I have certain contacts which provide me with some knowledge as regards the use of advertising, there are many specialised ... -
Economic relativity
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)If the sole purpose of the work of the Society were statistical investigation, I would be completely unqualified to preside over its meetings. It is possible, however, to slip in under the second part of our title. In ... -
The changing distribution of population in County Mayo
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)County Mayo had, in 1936, 41.5 per cent, of its peak population of 388,887 in 1841. Nine of the twenty-six counties in Eire maintained their population to a greater degree than Mayo between 1841 and 1936. Dublin city ... -
Unemployment?the statistical background
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)Statistics relating to unemployment in this country are available from two main sources. There is first, the weekly figures published in the Press showing the number of unemployed who are seeking work and who register ... -
Irish medical services
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)The Draft Interim Report of the Medical Planning Commission of the British Medical Association defines the objects of medical service as ? firstly to provide a system of medical service directed towards the achievement ... -
Irish Social Services: a Symposium - Addendum to the Symposium
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)So much excitement has been worked up over the Beveridge Report in Great Britain that we here may tend to exaggerate its importance. In the first place, even if the Report were applied in full (which is by no means the ... -
Public assistance
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)The Public Assistance Act, 1939, which came into operation last August, is now the legal basis of public assistance. It replaced the Poor Relief Acts so far as they related to the administration of relief and combines ... -
National health insurance
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)It is necessary, in any consideration of the National Health Insurance scheme, to bear in mind a number of important factors. (a) It was established initially to relieve the excessive demands on the Poor Law, following ... -
Monetary functions of commercial banks
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)The object of this paper is to attempt to elucidate briefly from a practical standpoint the significance of bank deposits and bank loans in the monetary system and to analyse the actual character of the processes which ... -
Some observations on births in Dublin in the years 1941 and 1942
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)The population problem is a subject which may be beyond my capacity to deal with in any authoritative manner but on account of its very importance the paper presented to the Society this evening may provoke serious ... -
A short review of the general financial principles and methods of Irish and British social insurance schemes
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)The social insurance schemes at present in operation are those relating to health, unemployment and pensions. These schemes are distinguishable from other social schemes by the fact that direct contributions are taken ... -
Irish Social Services: a Symposium: the ethical aspect
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)The task allotted to me in this symposium is to consider our Irish Social Services and the Beveridge Report from the ethical point of view. I can only suggest three lines of thought to the members of this Society: ... -
Some considerations regarding the cost of social security in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)Perhaps the most convenient approach to this subject is to assume for the moment that our social problems are of so similar a nature to those of Great Britain that their solution lies in the adoption of a social security ... -
A comparison of the principal economic features of Eire and Denmark
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1944)Denmark is not only a smaller country than Eire but her climate is less equable, her soils are, in general, lighter and poorer, she has no coal and no water power to compensate for its absence, nor has she any iron ore ... -
Irish tuberculosis death rates: a statistical study of their reliability, with some socio-economic correlations
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1944)In an important paper which was published in the Journal of this Society for 1930, Geary surveyed Irish tuberculosis statistics. This communication has as its first aim to analyse along similar lines the figures of the ... -
Discussion on the future of Irish external trade
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1944)Dr. Henry Kennedy said that his contribution to the Discussion would take the form of a detailed estimate of the productive potential of our land. He would leave to other speakers consideration of the economic and perhaps ... -
Financial results on mixed dairy farms in 1942-43 as compared with 1938-39
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1944)In May, 1939, a report on the financial results secured on 98 "mixed" dairy farms on the North Cork-Limerick border, in the accounting year ended 30th April, 1938, was presented to the Society. (Journal SSI 1938-39) For ... -
Discussions on papers read during the 97th session 1943/1944
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1944)On account of the paper shortage it was not found possible to print summaries of discussions on papers read during the 1943-44 Session. These are printed in the present supplement, the pagination of which continues from ... -
Obituary: George E. Shanahan, Robert J. Rowlette
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1944)
