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MAJORITY REPORT. 
provision would be made for the absorption of the staffs of the 
present Insurance Committees. 
SECTION E.—DEPOSIT CONTRIBUTORS. 
397. We now come to a problem which has exercised the minds 
of the administrators of the Insurance Scheme ever since its 
inception—that of the deposit contributors. This class was 
established at the institution of National Health Insurance as a 
temporary arrangement for the accommodation of those insured 
persons who would not, or could not, join Approved Societies. 
The arrangements were to be reviewed in three years. The 
difficulties of finding a solution of this problem have been s0 
great and the arrangements in their present form have worked 
with such a considerable degree of success, that the Deposit Con- 
tributors Fund still remains an integral part of the Scheme. The 
present membership of the deposit contributor class is about 
240,000 persons, i.e., about 1} per cent. of the total namber of 
insured persons. 
308. The following table shows the number of deposit con- 
tributors in England in November, 1924, classified in accordance 
with the vears in which they became deposit contributors :— 
Year of 
becoming a 
Deposit 
Contributor. 
1912... J 
1913 ... io 
1914 ... so 
1015... ron 
1916"... uk 
1917 So 
1018... = 
1919... aie 
1920. ... ies 
19212... we 
1922... Sun 
1923 ve sok 
1924 (to Nov.) 
Totals ... 
Men 
| P " 
er- 
Number. | 
er. | sentace. 
13,663 
1,999 
2.127 
3.959 
3.478 
4117 
4.206 
19,495 
11,938 
11,958 
20.358 
31,204 
93198 
9-01 
1-32 
1-40 
2:61 
2-29 
2-72 
2-77 
12-85 
7:89 
789 
13-42 
20-58 
15°25 
151.630 
100-00 
Women. 
Number. | 
6,007 
1,191 
1,099 
2.320 
3,450 
4.549 
4203 
4,018 
6,694 
8,131 
12,117 
18,337 
18.544 
85.460 
Per- 
centage. 
7:03 
1-39 
1-29 
2:71 
4-04 
5-32 
4-92 
4-70 
7-83 
9-51 
14-18 
21-46 
15:61 
100-00 
Men and Women 
(combined). 
Number. 
Per- 
centage. 
19,670 
3.190 
3.226 
6.279 
6,928 
8,666 
8,409 
23.513 
18,632 
20,089 
32.475 
19.541 
2p 479 
8-30 
1:35 
1:36 
2-65 
2:92 
3:65 
3:55 
9-92 
7-86 
8-47 
18-70 
20-89 
15+ 38% 
937.090 
| 100-00 
The table shows :— 
(1) That only 8:3 per cent. of the present total membership 
became deposit contributors in 1912. 
(9) That for the succeeeding six years the corresponding 
figure is extremely low, and even for 1918 it is under 4 per 
cent. 
(8) That approximately half the present total of 237,090 
joined the class within the last three years.