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A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland

Chapter 28: Transcriber's Notes:
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This study traces the origin, institutional development, and public debates surrounding savings banks in Britain and Ireland, describing early philanthropic experiments, the evolution of regulatory frameworks, and successive reform proposals that led to postal savings, government annuities, and state life-insurance measures. It interweaves narrative history with parliamentary proceedings, profiles of reformers, legal abstracts, statistical tables, and practical commentary for employers and depositors, and concludes with an appendix reproducing relevant Acts and up-to-date figures. The author aims for factual clarity and impartial treatment rather than technical actuarial analysis.

Transcriber's Notes:

Missing letters were added to incompletely printed words.

Punctuation was made consistent.

Footnotes were numbered sequentially and moved to the end of the chapter in which they occur. Footnote 49 refers to the table following the anchor. The table was moved to fall between paragraphs, rather than interrupt the paragraph, as in the original book.

Wide tables were divided so that all data will display on small screens.

Other changes:

'Artizan' to 'artisan' in various places.
two instances of “i. e.” to “i.e.”
a) 'Rotherdam' to 'Rotherham'
b) removed l from '5l percent'
c) 'Monquhilter' to Monquhitter
d) 'pamphet' to 'pamphlet'
e) 'gnee' to 'gone'
f) space removed from 'sm all'
g) 'busi-' to 'business'
h) 'effected' to 'affected'