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    • The Acts for taking the census in England, Scotland, and Ireland, of 1881 

      Eason, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
      In the last session of Parliament three Acts were passed for taking the Census of the United Kingdom during the present year. The English Act is 43 & 44 Vic. c. 37. The Scotch Act, c, 38, and the Irish Act, c. 28. Inasmuch ...
    • American railways 

      Eason, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1886)
      It will be my aim in this paper, first to exhibit a summary view of the railways as a whole; second, to show from an examination of the accounts of some leading lines, the peculiarities of the financial circumstances ...
    • The manufactures of the United States 

      Eason, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)
      The census of the United States is of a much more comprehensive character than that of the United Kingdom. In addition to the collection of facts regarding the people, it includes an inquiry into the wealth of the nation. ...
    • The present position of the national finances 

      Eason, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1888)
      The expenditure and revenue of the United Kingdom have been equalised for the past few years by variations of the income tax. But this simple process can be continued no longer. The growth of expenditure, the adjustment ...
    • Railway rates 

      Eason, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)
      A great deal of discontent is felt by traders, and by the general public, with the charges made by railway companies for the carriage of goods and passengers. It is alleged: That trade is injured by excessive rates, which ...
    • Report of the Irish poor law commission 

      Eason, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1928)
      In March, 1925, a Commission was appointed, and it is their Report, dated August, 1927, of which a summary is now submitted to you. It is possible that some of the defects in particular, cases may have been remedied, ...
    • Should the list of authorised trustee investments in the Irish Free State be extended? 

      Eason, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1932)
      I recommend that to the list of authorised investments should be added some Free State Securities, some Securities in Northern Ireland and some in Foreign Countries and British Dominions. But before doing so I review ...
    • The tenement homes of Dublin: their condition and regulation 

      Eason, Charles (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 trustee savings banks of Great Britain and Ireland 

      Eason, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1930)
      The work of the Trustee Savings Banks has been an important factor in the economic and social progress of the United Kingdom from 1817 to the present time.