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AUSTRIA

stitute) in Austria during five years, the number of persons relieved by them, and the amount distributed : —

Year

Institutes

Persons relieved

Distributed

Florijis

1891

11,35

810,645

4,984,938

1892

11,878

321,594

5,062,415

1 1893

11,949

251,145

5,550,560

1894

12,962

259,929

5,312,151

1895

11,235

316,392

6,694,970

Besides these there were, in 1895, 1,155 creches, Kindergartens, &c. , with 125,877 children, 202 orphanages, &c., with 14,153 children, and 1,486 poor- houses ( Versorgungs-Anstalten), with 43,055 inmates. The expenditure for the poor-houses alone was 3,320,511 florins, or 0'40 florin per head, per day.

Finance,

The following table shows the expenditure and revenue of Austria in thousands of florins ; —

1880

1890

1893

1894

1895

1896

Expenditure : —

Total in cash ,

,, in bills ,

Total.

Jtevenue : — Total in cash. ,, in bills.

Total

432,075 41,303

473,378

445,935 37,428

559,598 88,457

629,813 420,210

691,932 27,651

743,670 65,715

809,385

728,506 8,881

648,055

1,050,023

659,163 399,181

719,583

737,387

582,163

88,457

688,050 24,684

759,544 67,850

1 731,283 10,159

483,363

670,620

1,058,344

712,734

827,394

741,442

The revenue and expenditure were given as follows in the sanctioned estimates for the year 1899 as compared with those for 1898 :—