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“ Semmel,” which is a white bread with currants, and is said to be baked 
especially for Sundays. The usual price of black all-rye bread in October, 1905/ 
was 4d. to od. for 4 lb., of grey bread 4Jd. to 5Jd., and of white (wheat) 
bread 5\d. to l\d. for the same weight. The varieties of cheese mostly eaten 
ate Limburg, costing 5d. to 5Jd. per lb., Dutch costing 8fd., Swiss costing 11 d./ 
and Tilsit costing 9^¡d. Of 16,943 lb. of cheese sold in 1905-6 by the 
Co-operative Society named above 8,400 lb. were of Limburg and 5,120 lb. 
were Dutch. The coffee generally bought costs lid. per lb., but cheap 
substitutes are mixed with it to a large extent. 
Predominant Prices paid by the Working Classes in October, 1905, 
and September, 1907. 
Commodity. 
Predominant Price. 
October, 1905. 
September, 1907. 
Coffee 
Sugar :— 
Loaf ... ... 
White granulated 
Bacon :— 
~Fat ... 
Streaky 
Eggs, Country. 
Cheese :— 
Dutch 
Limburg 
Swiss... 
Tilsit... 
Butter ... 
Margarine 
Potatoes 
Flour :— 
Wheaten 
Rye ... 
Bread :— 
White 
Black 
Grey ... 
Milk ... 
Coal 
Paraffin... 
per lb. 
per Is. 
per lb. 
per 7 lb.* 
per 1 lb. 
per quart 
per cwt. 
per gallon 
lid. 
2&d. 
2\d., 2\d. 
8|d. to 9§d. 
‘ ‘ „ lid. 
12 
9§d 
8§d. 
5d. to 51d. 
lid.“ 
9¿d. 
Is. l|d. 
8|d. 
2\d. to 2fd. 
9\d, „ lOfd. 
lOd. 
5fd. to 7fd. 
4d. „ 5d. 
, ,, 5^d. 
2|d. — 
9|d. to lid. 
9fd. „ 9Jd. 
#d: 
lid. 
2 id. 
2|d. 
8§d. 
8|d. to 9|d. 
8,, 9 
8# 
5^d. 
lid. to Is. 
9\d. 
Is. lfd. to Is. 2|d. 
8#d. 
2\d to 2|d. 
11 \d. to Is. O^d. 
Is. Ofd. 
71d. 
4fd. to 5¿d. 
6d. „ 7d. 
2|d. 
9#d. to Is. O^d. 
* - lid. 
* Sold in quantities of 110 lb. 
Mmf. '/ ï 
The following is a record of the animals killed at the municipal slaughter 
house during the years 1904 and 1905 : — 
1904. 
Cattle ... 
Pigs ... 
Calves... 
Sheep ... 
Horses 
14,708 
51,151 
12,745 
3,654 
805 
1905. 
16,436 
40,888 
13,176 
4,553 
916 
The working classes eat for the most part beef, pork, and bacon, with 
dusage of which these kinds of meat are the principal ingredients. Returns 
>f weekly expenditure on meat made to the Department in 1907 by’ 273 house 
holds, representing 1,341 persons, showed a consumption of about l^ lb. per head, 
iqual to 92# lb. per annum. Of this 39 per cent, was pork and bacon, 28 per 
:ent. beef and 25 per cent, sausage ; mutton was only a little over 1 per cent. 
Chis consumption compares with 78'92 lb. per head per annum shown by 
imilar working-class returns in the neighbouring colliery town of Bochum and 
*3'29 lb. shown in Essen. 
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