Part III: Credit 



AUSTRIA. 



SAVINGvS BANK STATISTICS IN 191 1 (r). 



SOURCE : 



Statistik der Sparkassen in den im Reichsrate vertretenen Konigreichen und I,an- 

 DERN FUR DAS Jahr 1911. Bcarbsitet vom Bureau der K. K. Statistischen Zentralkom- 

 mission. Wien, 1913. (Statistics of Savings Banks in the Countries represented in the 

 Reichsrat for 1911, published by the I.R. Central Statistical Commission). New Series. 

 Vol. X. No. I. Vienna, Gerold, 1913. 4to. pp. 45^117). 



Number of Savings Banks. At the end. of the year igii there were 

 675 savings banks in Austria, against 669 in 1910. Seven new institutes 

 had been founded, and only one, the communal bank of Saaz, went into 

 liquidation and was replaced by a branch of the Bohemian savings bank 

 of Prague. The increase in the number of these Banks in the last five 

 years was as follows : 



1907 14 1910 14 



1908 II 1911 7 



1909 5 



that is 50 in all, or 8% of the number at the end of 1906(625). Of the 

 7 new banks founded in 1911, i was founded in Carinthia, i in Carniola, 

 2 in Bohemia and 3 in Moravia. 



The Austrian Savings Banks are divided into Communal Saxdngs Banks 

 (Gemeinde-Sparkassen) , Co-operative Savings Banks {Vereins-Sparkassen). 

 and District Savings Banks {Bezirks-Sparkassen); of the 675 existing at 

 the end of 1911, 559 (82.81 %) were communal, 71 (10.52 %) were co-op- 

 erative and 45 (6. 67 %) were district savings banks. 



(i) The Monthly Bulletin of Economic and Social Intelligence in its issue for April, 

 1913, (No. 4), published statistics of the Austrian Savings Banks for 1910. We shall here 

 summarise the General Situation of the Austrian Savings Backs in 1911 from the of- 

 ficial statistical return published in 1913. 



