| Description | Pamphlet outlining the conditions of the poor in Dublin, positioned in comparison with the poor of Belfast, London, and other notable towns in England and Scotland. Includes sections on earnings, industrial occupations, dwellings, clothing and bedding, and diet, as well as a concluding section titled 'Betterment of the Poor'. Includes tables relating to tenement houses in Church Street, Dublin, and tables of diet showing sample daily consumption habits of families in Dublin across breakfast, dinner, and supper or tea. Includes photographic plate reproductions of a market in Patrick Street, Dublin, in May 1903. |