Thus the two principal changes in Ireland since 1893 have not weakened, but immensely strengthened, the case for Home Rule.
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[12] See [Appendix B.]
[13] [Appendix B] (4), 31,000 in 1911, the lowest figure since the Famine. There is a similar decline in the number of the Migratory Labourers, from 15,000 in 1907 to 10,000 in 1910 (Cd. 6019).
[14] [Appendix B] (2) and (3). 2,000 families and nearly 3,000 inhabited houses.
[15] The yield of Irish income tax is practically stationary at £1,000,000, as against £30,000,000 yielded by Great Britain. (Inland Revenue Report, 1910-11, page 100.) The assessment to income tax is £40,000,000 for Ireland, as against £93,000,000 for Scotland (with about the same population), and £878,000,000 for England.
[16] See [Appendix F]. The diminution is from 99,000 to 80,000.
[17] The deaths from consumption in Ireland declined from 10,594 in 1909 to 10,016 in 1910. (Irish Registrar-General's Report, 1911, p. xxvi.)
[18] See [Appendix B.]