http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8719 2013-05-24T22:58:33Z 2013-05-24T22:58:33Z Dublin Statistical Society http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9298 2010-06-03T15:55:51Z 1849-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Vol.I Session I: Preminary pages & list of members Author: Dublin Statistical Society

1849-01-01T00:00:00Z Shackleton, Ebenezer http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7780 2010-06-03T15:55:55Z 1851-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Thoughts on reading the Hon. John P. Vereker's paper on absenteeism Author: Shackleton, Ebenezer Abstract: Even if we grant that Absenteeism is an evil, in an economical sense, what then? How would you cure it, without interfering with personal freedom? Who do you call an absentee? Is it the man who derives rent from one part of the kingdom, and spends it in another—from Ireland, for instance, to spend it in England? Mr. Vereker speaks of this man as an absentee. Might he not as well call the landlord of an estate in Munster, who reside in Leinster, an absentee?—or even closer—in the adjoining county, or parish? Again, it is said that money spent in the country must do good, and augment its wealth, either directly or indirectly. It might be better for a tenantry that a landlord should spend his rents in the gambling houses at Baden-baden. Such a thing is possible, and in point of fact, the tenantry of absentees are more thriving than are the tenantry of some resident proprietors. Description: Read March 18th 1850

1851-01-01T00:00:00Z Vereker, John P. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7739 2010-06-03T15:55:55Z 1849-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: An economic consideration of the Irish judgment - acts Author: Vereker, John P. Abstract: It has frequently been asked, Why have the landlords of Ireland so deeply encumbered their estates? and why do they not now, by a sale of a portion of their property, release the remainder from their creditors? The last question has already been partly answered by the able papers read before this society, by Professor Hancock and Dr. Longfield, upon "the legal difficulties that impede the transfer and sale of landed property" in this country; but as I feel it would be quite impossible for me, in the short time during which I intend to trespass upon your indulgence, to give anything even approaching to a satisfactory answer to the remainder of these questions, I propose to confine myself altogether, in this paper to the economic effects of the judgment acts as they exist in Ireland. Description: Read March 19th 1849

1849-01-01T00:00:00Z MacFarlane, Henry James http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7726 2010-06-03T15:55:42Z 1849-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: On the economic levying and application of Irish poor-rate Author: MacFarlane, Henry James Abstract: As I am not aware that the Irish poor law has been directly submitted to the consideration of this society, I would take a hasty glance at its common history and general working throughout the United Kingdom, before alluding to its introduction to this country, and considering what mode more economic than the present might be adopted in levying funds for poor law purposes; in order to impress upon all classes how closely identified are their mutual interests, and by encouraging the good agriculturist, so raise up and increase the demand for labour, as to improve the condition of the labourer. Description: Read March 19th 1849

1849-01-01T00:00:00Z Haughton, James http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7725 2010-06-03T15:55:54Z 1849-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: On the connexion between intemperance and crime Author: Haughton, James Abstract: I have for some time past felt desirous to bring before the society some statistics relative to Crime and Intemperance. On sitting down to this task, greater difficulties than I had anticipated presented themselves, arising in great measure from the multiplicity of documents which prove the intimate relation between these two evils, and from the absence of that clear proof of the facts stated, upon which the real value of statistical information depends. My attention has never been much turned to the collection of facts, or to the demonstrative proof of facts. Like, perhaps, most other readers, I have contented myself with taking for granted the statements of writers; often, I fear, made without patient investigation, or upon data not subjected to sufficiently precise enquiry. On turning my attention to the subject, the difficulties I have just referred to soon presented themselves. I have laboured to counteract them; to avoid exaggeration and amplification; and so to sift facts as to arrive at the exact truth, and I shall now endeavour to give you some correct idea of the connexion which exists between the crimes that deface the social fabric, and those drinking customs which so universally prevail; and so to perform this task, as to prove that I have not undertaken it with a view of sustaining any preconceived theory, at the expense of truth. Description: Read January 29th 1849

1849-01-01T00:00:00Z Murland, James W. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7722 2010-06-03T15:55:42Z 1849-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Observations on Irish railway statistics Author: Murland, James W. Abstract: As the railway system has now been considerably extended in Ireland, it becomes a matter of interest to mark its progress, and to examine the parliamentary and other public returns of traffic, for the purpose of discovering how far it has fulfilled or surpassed the expectation formed of it by the late Mr. Drummond, and other gentlemen who sat on the Railway Commission in this country ten years ago. It will also be interesting to inquire, to what extent railways have increased the intercourse and developed the resources of those districts where they have been opened; and whether the experience we have had points out any obstacles in the way of their further progress, which ought to be removed by the legislature. Description: Read January 18th 1849

1849-01-01T00:00:00Z Haughton, James http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7721 2010-06-03T15:55:42Z 1849-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The use of alcoholic liquors: economically, socially, and morally wrong Author: Haughton, James Abstract: In a former paper which I had the honour to read before this society, I showed the intimate connexion between intemperance and crime. I purpose, on the present occasion, to carry out the object I then had in view, and to occupy your attention by a brief examination of the evils which result to society, in an economic, a social, and a moral point of view, from the use of alcoholic liquors. The inquiry will include an investigation into the consequences resulting to mankind, in relation to their wealth, their health, and their happiness, from this cause. Description: Read May 21st 1849

1849-01-01T00:00:00Z Whately, Richard http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7720 2010-06-03T15:55:42Z 1849-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Report of the council Author: Whately, Richard Abstract: In presenting the first annual report, the council have much pleasure in referring to the proceedings of the society during the past year. Description: Read June 19th 1848

1849-01-01T00:00:00Z Mac Adam, James http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7719 2010-06-03T15:55:54Z 1849-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: On schools of design in Ireland Author: Mac Adam, James Abstract: The government having decided on establishing Schools of Ornamental Design in Ireland, and parliament having accordingly voted the sum of £1500 for the organization of such schools in Belfast, Dublin, and Cork, I conceive it to be of interest and importance, in connexion with the objects of this society, to bring before its consideration the effects that are likely to arise from the action of these institutions, both with respect to the developement of certain existing manufactures and trades, the establishment of others, the employment of our population, and the manner in which the tastes created and the information disseminated through these schools are calculated to exert an influence on different sections of the Irish people. Having been for some time past engaged, in concert with other individuals, in preparing for the organization of the Belfast school, some facts have come within my knowledge which I think it desirable to communicate to the society, trusting that the attention already bestowed on the subject by some of its members may lead to suggestions for the guidance of the schools in the direction which it may appear most judicious to give to their labours. Description: Read January 18th 1849

1849-01-01T00:00:00Z Hogan, William http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7701 2010-06-03T15:55:54Z 1849-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The dependence of national wealth on the social and sanatory state of the labouring classes Author: Hogan, William Abstract: In the year 1841, public attention was called to the duration of infantile life in the North Dublin Union Workhouse; about the same period Mr. Willis was elected a guardian, and he entered on his duties impressed with the belief, that there was an excess of mortality amongst the children of the workhouse. Circumstances had made him intimately acquainted with the very poor inhabitants of Michan's parish. He at once set about the formation of a table of infantile life, and after a minute and careful examination of the facts, collected in the course of his enquiries, was convinced that the alleged excessive mortality amongst the children of the workhouse was very much exaggerated, and that the deaths were not more numerous than in the same class outside, and not more than might have been expected, from the state of destitution and wretchedness to which the mothers were reduced before they sought admission. Description: Read February 19th 1849

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