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    • The Dublin housing question: sanitary and insanitary 

      Dawson, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1913)
      So much attention has been devoted to the insanitary condition of certain quarters of our City that it appears to me that the work which has been done for the providing of sanitary and comfortable dwellings for the workers ...
    • Housing in Dublin: report of Committee on Control and Improvement of Tenement Houses 

      Committee on Control and Improvement of Tenement Houses (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1914)
      The improvement of the Housing Conditions of the working classes in Dublin, dealt with in the Report of the Departmental Committee of the Local Government Board for Ireland, can be effected in two ways - 1) improving ...
    • Remedies for overcrowding in the city of Dublin 

      Lawson, William (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
      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 ...
    • Slums: a sociological retrospect of the city of Dublin 

      Millin, S. Shannon (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1914)
      If I required an excuse for my paper, I would quote the words of the Chief Secretary Right Hon. A. Birrell, M.P., in reply to a deputation which recently waited on him in reference to the Dublin Housing Problem:?"As ...
    • Some remedies for overcrowded city districts 

      Roney, Miss (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
      The growth of true civilization, the extension of education, and evolution of a better race, constitute national progress. As cities contain the greater part of the population of any country, they are always an important ...
    • 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," ...