JSSISI: 1879 to 1886, Vol. VIII, Parts LVI to LXIII: Recent submissions
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Some considerations on the Industrial Remuneration Conference, 1885
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)There has been an increasing tendency of late years to give greater prominence to social as opposed to political questions, and to bring more distinctly into notice the various plans suggested for social reform. One evidence ... -
Baronial guarantees under ?The Tramways Act, 1883?.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)Anyone who has watched the progress of business at the last spring assizes in Ireland, must have been struck by the interest exhibited in, and the time and attention devoted to the question of the construction of tramways ... -
Statistics of the county infirmaries, Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)I venture to bring the subject of the County Infirmaries of Ireland before your Society, from a desire to place on record the large amount of medical and surgical relief afforded to the poor in Ireland by these institutions, ... -
Notes on the statistics of waste lands in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)In consequence of many published statements by public speakers, newspaper writers, essayists, and writers in reviews, with reference to the relative amount of Irish land which is out of use, I have thought it advisable to ... -
Magisterial reform: being some considerations on the present voluntary system, and suggestions for the substitution of an independent paid magistracy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)At various periods since the Union bitter controversies have arisen on the subject of magisterial reform, and the question of a paid versus an unpaid magistracy has frequently occupied the public attention. When we consider ... -
Suggestions for the amendment of the law relating to civil bill appeals
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)There can be little doubt, whatever may have been the object of those who devised the trial of small causes by assistant barristers at quarter sessions, the idea was suggested by the ancient and popular practice, which ... -
The treatment and punishment of young offenders
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)The treatment and punfehment of young offenders have lately been much discussed in England with a view to future legislation. The subject is one of vast importance to Ireland, and in the hope that the intended legislation ... -
Tramway legislation, with suggestions for promoting steam tramways in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)I propose in the present paper to point out the legislation which has taken place for the promotion of tramways on country roads in Ireland. I do not propose to touch upon those Acts that have been passed by private companies ... -
On some comparative statistics of Irish counties, compiled from the returns obtained during the late census and the census of 1841, and other publications issued by the General Register Office of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)In the following statement I wish to bring under review a number of statistics which I have arranged since the completion of the Census of 1881. These statistics are not altogether derived from the census reports, but are ... -
On the anomalous differences in the poor-laws of Ireland and of England with reference to outdoor relief, area of taxation, etc.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)The paper I am about to read possesses no claim to originality. I have merely put together the conclusions arrived at by a few gentlemen interested in the question of poor relief, who met and considered some points connected ... -
Report on homes of the poor
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)The state of the dwellings of the working and poorer population has been now so fully recognized as one of the most potent causes of all that is deplorable in the sanitary and social conditions of this city, that we do not ... -
The future of American agricultural competition
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)In this paper I shall endeavour to bring before the members of the Statistical Society some figures, which seem to me to throw considerable light on the vexed question of the extent to which farming in the United Kingdom ... -
Suggestions for the simplification of the procedure in relation to the sale of land in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)I am indebted to the Council of your Society for the privilege of submitting for your consideration this evening, some suggestions for the simplification of the procedure in relation to the sale of land in Ireland, and I ... -
The Acts for taking the census in England, Scotland, and Ireland, of 1881
(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 ... -
On some economic conditions of industrial development with special reference to the case of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)The improvement and expansion of the industrial powers of a country are naturally objects of considerable interest to all its inhabitants, but there does not appear to be any definite idea as to the laws which govern the ... -
The substitution of stock for other forms of local indebtedness
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The substitution of debenture stock or consolidated stock for other forms of local indebtedness has already occupied the attention of this Society. I find that in July, 1871, Doctor Neilson Hancock contributed to its ... -
A review of some of the subjects in the report of the Royal Commission on Prisons in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)A review of some of the subjects in the Report of the Royal Commission on Prisons in Ireland has appeared to me a subject well worthy of consideration before this Society, dealing as it does with social problems of vast ... -
Registration of title indispensable for peasant proprietors
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)The subject of this paper is a branch of the large and difficult problem which increasingly engages the attention of social and legal reformers; how, namely, to combine security of titles to landed properties with facilities ... -
On the cost and delay in obtaining loans on land and the high rate of interest charged to tenants for loans
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The failure of the potato crop in Ireland, in 1845, which led to Sir Robert Peel's cabinet adopting and carrying Free Trade, was followed by the still more extensive failure in 1846. This brought on a paralysis of credit, ... -
Address at the opening of the Thirty-eighth Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)Before entering on the subject of my address to-night, I feel that I must thank you very heartily for the great honour you have conferred upon me in placing me in the position of president of your society. When I look over ...