The empire of India . POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS The use made of the Post Office Savings Bank has beenrapidly increasing and there are now a miUion and aquarter Indian depositors. Their deposits maintain inthe Bank a balance of £8*5 millions. A third of this balanceis annually renewed by withdrawals and deposits, and itappears, then, that the Bank is largely used for purposesof temporary safe custody. But its popularity is asatisfactory proof of growing confidence in the stabilityof the Government. Medical and Sanitary Departments In nothing do Indian habits need change more urgentlythan in mat

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The empire of India . POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS The use made of the Post Office Savings Bank has beenrapidly increasing and there are now a miUion and aquarter Indian depositors. Their deposits maintain inthe Bank a balance of £8*5 millions. A third of this balanceis annually renewed by withdrawals and deposits, and itappears, then, that the Bank is largely used for purposesof temporary safe custody. But its popularity is asatisfactory proof of growing confidence in the stabilityof the Government. Medical and Sanitary Departments In nothing do Indian habits need change more urgentlythan in matters that affect the preservation of from famine, plague, and cholera, the death rateis exceedingly high : allowing for some understatementby the registration offices, it may be put, one year withanother, at 32 per thousand. Annually between eight andnine miUion deaths occur, and even a small reduction inthe death rate represents a great saving of human the last ten years plague has exacte

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