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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 51

4.—Education

4.—Education.

United Kingdom.
Year. Schools, Inspected. Accommodation. Average Attendance.
1863 7,739 1,512,782 1,008,925
1869 10,337 2,076,344 1, 332,786
1874 15,671 3,344,071 1,985,394
1879 20,169 4,727,853 2,980,104
18 80 20,670 4,842,807 3,155,534
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We thus see that while the material condition of our population has steadily improved, their moral and intellectual condition has also advanced in a remarkable degree.

One of the signs of improvement is in the matter of thrift. Take the Savings' Bank figures:—