The writer of an article in our leading journal (1) says:?"The need of the moment is not to abolish the public-house, but to reform it. The first step is to give a very substantial preference in treatment to houses ...

This question is no new one; it has been discussed in and out of this Society; much has been done by private and public effort to remedy the overcrowding which admittedly exists in the city of Dublin, but the latest ...