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Table F (ii). 
Condensed Budgets—United Kingdom. 
Average Weekly Cost and Quantity of Certain Articles of Food consumed by 
Jf orkmen's Families, whose incomes fall within certain limits, in all Districts 
of the United Kingdom, 1904. 
Limits of Weekly Income. 
Number of Returns ... 
Under 25s. 
261 
25s. and 
under 30s. 
289 
30s. and 
under 35s. 
35s. and 
under 40s. 
40s. and 
over. 
416 
382 
596 
Average Weekly Family Income ... 
s. d. 
21 4i 
Average number of children living at home 
31 
s. d. 
26 Ilf 
s. d. 
31 Ilk 
s. d. 
36 61 
s. d. 
52 0& 
3-3 
32 
3*4 
Bread and flour 
Meat (bought by weight)* 
Other meat (including fish) 
Eggs ... 
Fresh milk 
Cheese ... 
Animal fats f . 
Potatoes 
Vegetables and fruits 
Farinaceous foods other than bread and 
flour.J 
Tea, coffee, cocoa, «fee. 
Sugar 
Other items § 
Meals away from home 
Total expenditure on food 
Cost. 
s. d. 
3 01 
3 21 
0 71 
0 51 
0 8 
0 4| 
1 8 
0 81 
0 41 
0 41 
0 111 
0 8 
1 1 
0 11 
14 4f 
s. d. 
3 31 
4 11 
0 81 
0 81 
0 111 
0 51 
0 94 
21 
0 10 
17 101 
s. d. 
3 31 
5 11 
0 10 
0 11 
s ? 
2 41 
0 101 
0 10 
0 6 
1 4J 
0 101 
1 71 
0 4 
20 91 
1 51 
0 111 
1 101 
0 61 
22 31 
44 
d. 
? 
7$ 
0 8 
3 8 
1 1 
1 
3* 
0 7 
1 101 
1 3 
2 61 
0 9 
29 8 
Bread and flour 
Meat of all kinds (including an 
allowance for fish) 
Eggs ... 
Fresh milk 
Cheese ... 
Animal fats f 
Potatoes 
Sugar ... 
lb. 
Ño. 
pints 
lb. 
Quantities. 
28-44 
6-42 
6-2 
5-54 
0-67 
2- 05 
14-05 
3- 87 
29 97 
7- 57 
8- 7 
7-72 
0-70 
2-47 
1584 
4-62 
2944 
8-66 
11-3 
9-85 
0-79 
2-67 
16-11 
4-79 
2999 
9-25 
12-0 
10-34 
0-77 
2-87 
1587 
5-21 
37-76 
11- 87 
16-3 
12- 63 
1-02 
3-96 
19-93 
6-70 
t Butter, margarine, lard, suet, and dripping. 
* Including bacon. 
$ Rice, tapioca, oatmeal. 
§ Currants, raisins, jam, marmalade, treacle, syrup, pickles, condiments, and “ other 
items. 
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