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Poverty as a cause of ill-health
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1940)
In Lurgan, Co. Armagh, where I practise, there is an excessive amount
of sickness, and few people show really good health. By good health,
I mean not merely the avoidance of disease, but the attainment and
maintenance ...
Comparison between boarding-out and pauper schools
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)
After I had considered in an address to the Statistical Society the question of the proper mode of dealing with the children whom destitution has brought into the care of the state, this paper was sent to me by the late ...
On the anomalous differences in the poor-laws of Ireland and of England: an address to the Trades Union Congress
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
Asked to address you on the anomalous differences in the Poor-laws of Ireland and England, my first inquiry was, what views had been adopted by the parliamentary committee of your Congress on the subject of equal laws for ...
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 ...
Second tier child income support: the case for innovation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2008)
Total and per child spending on child income supports are at high levels, and so are child poverty and the proportion of children being reared in jobless households. While the role of child income supports in alleviating ...
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 ...
Reports of Charity Organisation Committee of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, appointed 7th December, 1875
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)
The committee was appointed at the December meeting of the Council, to consider and make suggestions upon the subject of a charity organisation: (1) To collect further information as to the working of charity organisation ...
Impediments to savings from cost and trouble to the poor of proving wills
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
The desirability of encouraging thrifty habits amongst our people is now fully acknowledged; and the admirable arrangements of the Post Office department afford ample facilities for the investment of small savings, for ...
The sanitary state of Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)
In this paper, for the incompleteness of which I shall at once
apologize, I propose to sketch briefly, and as far as my observations
have extended, the sanitary state of our city, being convinced that
much disease, and ...
The workhouse as a mode of relief for widows and orphans
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)
The principles on which the Irish Poor Law is to be
administered for the future must be learned not from the traditions
of the changes introduced in England in 1834, nor from the idle
theories prevalent in Ireland in ...