Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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18 BERLIN. If for present purposes the distinction between “ heatable ” and “ unbeatable" rooms be disregarded, the small dwellings of Berlin as enumerated in 1900 may be more summarily and also more satisfactorily classified in the following groups :— Dwelling consisting of Number. Percentage of Whole. One room Two rooms ... j Three rooms Only kitchen ... One room without kitchen ... One room with kitchen Two rooms without kitchen Two rooms with kitchen ... Three rooms without kitchen 4,086 ) 37,556 33,470 i m i i75 > 338 143 ’^gg j 143,887 80 37-2 306 It is interesting to compare these percentages with the corresponding percentages for London :— Tenements of London. Number. Percentage. Berlin. Number. Percentage. One room Two rooms Three rooms Four rooms and over Total 149,524 201,431 181,542 487,049 14-7 19-8 17-8 47-8 1,019,546 37,556 175,338 143,887 114,196 80 37 2 30-6 242 470,977 The following table shows the number of occupied tenements of from one to four rooms in London and Berlin according to the censuses of 1901 and 1900 respectively (rented dwellings alone being counted in the case of Berlin), with the average number of persons per tenement of each size :— Number of Rooms per Tenement. One room... Two rooms Three rooms Four rooms One to four rooms Number of such Tenements. London. 149,524 201,431 181,542 139,533 672,030 Berlin. 37,369 175,163 143,744 56,197 412,473 Number of Persons. Total. London. Berlin. 304,874 701,203 752,221 691,491 2,449,789 67,645 629,929 608,671 239,171 1,545,416 Per Tenement. London. Berlin 204 3- 48 4- 14 4-96 3 65 181 3 60 423 4-26 3 75 At the census of December, 1900, of the total population of Berlin, 96*7 per cent, lived in rented dwellings, and of these 84*6 per cent, lived in dwelling's of not more than four rooms, while in London only 54 per cent, of the total population lived in tenements of not more than four rooms. In Berlin 3*7 per cent, of the population occupying rented dwellings lived in dwellings consisting of one room only, 34 5 per cent, in dwellings of two rooms, 33 3 per cent in dwellings of three rooms, and 131 per cent, in four room dwellings. The corresponding percentages for London (all occupied dwellings—not rented onlvl were 6 - 7, 15*5, 16’6 and 15'2 respectively. ^ While the large " barrack,” built round a courtyard, is the typical Berlin house, several variations of this type are clearly recognisable, and they can be placed in a certain chronological sequence, according broadly with the building by-laws which have been issued from time to time. Disregarding for the moment the fast disappearing relics of old Berlin, buildings anterior to sanitary regulations of any kind, and embodying the most primitive principles of domestic architecture, the worst houses are those which were built under the by-laws ot 1853, when Berlin was a town of some 428,000 inhabitants with an industry of growing yet still insignificant proportions.

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