Ancient_and_modern_York_a_guide

120 ANCIENT AND
ffo. of
Total Amount of
Dtvoritori.
tach Clats.
£. m. d.
3571 whose respective balances did not exceed £90 each, 21,555 7 3
1399 ditto were above £20 and not exceeding £50 ditto 42,191 )0 8
651 ditto were above £50 and not exceeding £100 ditto 44,927 5 10
349 ditto were above£100 andnotexceeding£150ditto 30,092 16 11
128 ditto were abovo £150 and not exceeding £200 ditto 25,326 5 7
48 ditto exceeding £200 .... 11,549 19 4
5056 Total Number of Depositors . . . 176,344 1 6
49 Charitable Societies .... 3,331 16 1
37 Friendly Society ...... 8,837 7 10
5142 Total Number of Accounts . . . . 187,913 12 5
flnsurance anfc @aS Companies.
The Yorkshire fire and life Insurance Company, estab
lished at York, 1824; St. Helen's Square.
York and London fire and life Assurance Company,
established in 1834; High Ousegate.
York Gas-light Company, established 1823, Monkgate.
York Union Gas-light Company, established 1837;
Hungate.
Che ^Merchants' Compan».
This company was established in York at a very early
period, to encourage the trade of York, which was then
considerable. It has survived all the fluctuations and
final decline of the foreign commerce of the city.
STATISTICS OF EDUCATION IN YORK.
The state of education will next claim our attention :
In the year 1826, an account of the state of education
in the city of York, was procured by a committee of gen
tlemen, chiefly belonging to the society of friends, by
visiting, from house to house, the whole of the labouring
population ; and the following are the conclusions at
which the committee, who conducted it, arrived :—That
of the children between the ages of six and ten, nearly
one-fourth did not go to any day school ; that between the