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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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