Browsing JSSISI: 1894 to 1900, Vol. X, Parts LXXIV to LXXX by Subject "314.15"
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Over-taxation and local expenditure in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1899)The speech delivered by Mr. Arthur Balfour in the House of Commons on the 5th July, 1898, has evidently been considered a particularly effective and unanswerable reply to the financial demands of Ireland, for it was not ... -
Prevention and elimination of disease, insanity, drunkenness and crime - a suggestion
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1895)Under the present social system marriage is permitted to persons quite unfit, physically or mentally, to produce sound and healthy offspring; say, rather, quite sure to produce offspring that are sickly and unsound. If ... -
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 ... -
Private Bill legislation for Ireland.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1897)The necessity for a reform of Private Bill procedure is so universally acknowledged, and the English, Scotch, and Irish press have, within the last few weeks, so emphatically reiterated the demand frequently put forward ... -
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 ... -
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: fifty-third session 1899/1900
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: forty-eighth session 1894/1895
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: forty-ninth session 1895/1896
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: forty-seventh session 1893/1894
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The progress of co-operation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1897)Everyone is familiar with the advantages of co-operation in industrial and commercial pursuits. What all treatises of Political Economy tell us as to the benefits of the Organisation of Industry and the Division of ... -
The proposal for the abolition of the income tax in Ireland considered
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1899)Sundry remedies have been suggested to relieve the over-taxation of Ireland. I desire to consider one which has lately been advocated in the Press, namely, the abolition of the Income Tax in Ireland, whether it is ... -
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 ... -
A review of the economic and social condition of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1899)Several of my predecessors in the office of President have taken as the subject-matter of their addresses a review of the economic and social condition of Ireland as revealed to us in the statistics furnished by the ... -
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, ... -
The Sherborn Massachusetts Reformatory Prison for Women.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1897)For reasons which it is not here necessary to state, the subject of prisons, imprisonment, and prison discipline, has claimed somewhat of my attention. I would briefly direct your attention to the Massachusetts Reformatory ... -
The struggle between the State and the drunkard
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1897)No one can be competent to discuss the Drink Question unless he has thought over it sufficiently to realize how complicated the subject necessarily is. It is intimately interwoven with details of economic laws which ... -
A suggestion for the removal of taxes on litigation in Ireland as a condition of the reduction of the judicial establishment
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1896)The rumour that the Treasury officials have determined to promote a Bill for the reduction of the judicial staff in Ireland has been gaining consistency. A general claque of approbation of the proposal has been raised ... -
The tenement homes of Dublin: their condition and regulation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1899)The condition of the tenement houses of Dublin was enquired into by the Royal Commission upon the Sewerage and Drainage of Dublin in 1879. Their report states that "9,760 houses were occupied as dwellings let in tenements," ... -
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, ...