Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — Postoffice Savings Bank Deposits. [ARTICLE]

Postoffice Savings Bank Deposits.

The amount due to depositors in the British Postoffice Savings Banks has grown In a year from £97,868,975 to £108,098,641, representing 6,862,035 accounts, or over 400,000 Increase in the year. More than Wf these accounts belong to women and children; indeed, their number Is estimated as high as 60 per cent, of tne whole body of depositors. It Is curious to find that the average credit of each -depositor is £ls 14s. In England, £l2 in Scotland, and £2O 7s. 7d. in Ireland, and that while one in five of the population deposits in England, the proportion is one to fifteen In Scotland and Ireland.