JSSISI: 1952 to 1957, Vol. XIX, Sessions 106th to 110th: Recent submissions

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    • Symposium on the economic outlook for 1954 

      Carter, C. F.; Robson, P.; Cuthbert, Norman; Black, W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)
      We are proceeding in this symposium from the general to the particular; and my task is to discuss in the broadest terms the general economic outlook for the United Kingdom in 1954. This seems to me to involve two questions, ...

    • Symposium on the present and future of inland transport 

      Carter, C. F.; Bailie, J. C.; Streight, R. L.; Johnson, Martin; Black, W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)
      The Statistical Society of Ireland is nearly 110 years old, and it has discussed the problems of Irish transport on some twenty-five occasions: for instance, over 90 years ago it was discussing the nationalisation of the ...

    • Symposium on the Report of the Commission on Emigration and other population problems 

      Carter, C. F.; Duncan, G. A.; Nevin, Donal; O Buachalla, Liam (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      My comments are limited to two points, one demographic and one economic. In matters demographic Ireland is obviously out of step with the rest of the world, and it is difficult to avoid the sense of guilt which comes ...

    • Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: one hundred and tenth session -1956/57 

      SSISI (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)

    • Radio Eireann listener research inquiries, 1953-1955 

      Forecast, K. G. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      Radio Eireann began conducting its own listener research in. March 1953 and has since completed four inquiries on listening in the Twenty Six Counties. The first referred to listening in the fortnight 15th-28th March 1953, ...

    • National insurance adjudication 

      Sheridan, L. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      The National Insurance scheme is contained in the National Insurance Act (Northern Ireland), 1946, several amending statutes, and scores of regulations made under all those Acts. Some of the phrases used in the Acts and ...

    • The Port of Cork 

      Horgan, John J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      The early importance of the Port of Cork is proved by the Charter granted by Henry VII in the year 1500 under which the Mayor of Cork was given jurisdiction over its waters. From this Grant arose the quaint and ancient ...

    • Hill land utilisation in Ulster 

      Symons, Leslie (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      This paper examines the use of hill land in Ulster at the present time, with particular emphasis on the improvements being undertaken to reduce the gap between present and potential productivity and with consideration of ...

    • Marriage in Ireland after the famine: the diffusion of the match 

      Connell, K. H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      Of all the casualties of Irish social life in the decades after the Famine, one of the most significant was marriage of the kind which had become all but universal in peasant families. Many of the characteristics of social ...

    • The significance of veterinary science in the national economy 

      Harnett, P. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      I propose to go into the economic significance of veterinary science in the Republic of Ireland and to relate the evidence to the year 1954. The most significant figures I have arrived at are derived from the returns on ...

    • Irish hospital finance 

      Hargadon, O. P. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      It will be readily understood that the energies of the local and central Government bodies in the 1920's were very considerably absorbed by general tasks of national reconstruction, with the result that little could be ...

    • Some problems of integration in the hospital service in N. Ireland 

      Neill, D. G. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      To attempt a comprehensive and analytical survey of the operation of the Hospital Service in N Ireland is a task beyond the scope of this paper. Nevertheless the publication of the report of the Guillebaud committee of ...

    • Capital formation, saving and economic progress 

      Whitaker, T. K. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      In this paper I assemble some facts and considerations regarding the relation of capital formation and saving to the raising of real incomes in Ireland. In other words, my concern is with national development and with some ...

    • Variability in agricultural statistics on small and medium-sized farms in an Irish county 

      Geary, R. C. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)
      Irish agricultural statistics, going back in an almost unbroken annual sequence for more than a hundred years, are amongst the country's most precious statistical possessions, and indications are that they will assume even ...

    • The port of Belfast 

      Sinclair, Kenneth (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)
      I have been asked to make the subject of my talk this evening the Port of Belfast. Many visitors to the Port, on being shown around, are surprised at its magnitude, and exclaim that previously they had no conception of ...

    • The taxation of business profits 

      Charleton, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)
      Almost every state today imposes a tax on income as a basic source of revenue and the more highly organised states are virtually dependent upon its yield in order to carry on government. Gladstone's idea of keeping it as ...

    • Technological training - education for industry 

      Alexander, D. H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)
      The invention of the steam engine and the widespread use of machinery m the rapidly growing manufacturing industries of the last century created the demand for a new form of training for those whose business it was to ...

    • Meteorology and the community 

      Dixon, F. E. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)
      Should scientists be subordinate to Civil Servants? Should the scientific services be amalgamated under one Ministry of Applied Science? Is there sufficient liaison between the meteorologists and other scientists, ...

    • A half century of fertiliser and lime use in Ireland 

      Walsh, T.; Ryan, P. F.; Kilroy, J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)
      The importance of a satisfactory supply of nutrient elements and lime, in soils, is now universally recognised as one of the major factors in crop production. When a crop, either tillage or pasture, is harvested from a ...

    • An amended Irish monetary system 

      Gibson, Norman (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)
      To understand the Irish monetary system it is necessary to know something of its development and of the general economic position of the Irish economy. It is a truism, but a very important one, that the Irish economy is ...