DORTMUND.
'482
The following were the weekly wages of employees in the municipal and
other public services at the same date :—
Weekly Wages.
Street and Road Department
Road-makers
Paviors ...
Paviors 1 labourers
Road sweepers ...
Sewer labourers
Excavators
21s.
37 s. 10 d.
22s. 10(7.
18s. to 21s.
21s.
21s. to 22s. 6(7.
Weekly Hours
of Labour.
63
63
63
63
63
63
Gasworks (private)
Stokers ...
Labourers
28s. 6(7.
22s. 6(7.
60
60
Waterworks :—
Labourers
21s. to 22s. 6(7.
60
Tramways :—
Drivers ...
Conductors
Electricity Works :—
Engine-men
Stokers ...
Fitters and Installers
23s. 3(7. to 28s. 9(7.*
22s. 6¿7. » 28s. 9(7.*
27s. 8(7. to 34s. 7(7.
27s. 8(7. „ 34s. 7(7.
27s. 8(7. „ 34s. 7(7.
60
60
60
72
60
Rising to this maximum by yearly increments of about Is. 2(7. weekly.
Housing and Rents.
It has already been remarked that the municipal authorities have been very
active in the enforcement of building regulations, and one result of this is that
in the newer parts of the towns slums do not exist, and can hardly come into
being in the future, whilst in the older streets they are rapidly being cleared
away. There are, of course, many poor streets in which the housing conditions
are very unsatisfactory, but there are few absolute slums. There are very few
“back-to-back” houses, and no basement dwellings. The sanitary administration
of the town is good.
The predominant type of house is one of three or four stories (including the
ground floor and the attics, if such exist) in a new and broad street, and
intended for six or eight families : generally it is of brick faced with stucco.
The normal dwelling is of two or three rooms, including the kitchen, which here
is always reckoned in the number of rooms ; each tenant must provide his own
stoves, and usually therefore the number of rooms which are heatable depends
on the means and inclination of the tenant. Of 2,793 dwellings whose rents
were classified for the purpose of this report, 1,320 or 47 3 per cent, consisted of
two rooms and 1,156 or 41*4 per cent, of three rooms.
The following Table shows the number of dwellings and rooms in 1900,
the latest year for which the detailed figures are available : —
No. of rooms.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 or more
No. of dwellings.
Total
874
8,456
5,583
1,854
969
546
152
70
28
49
18,581
Percentage of
the whole.
4- 7
45-5
30-0
10-0
5- 2
29
•8
•4
•2
•3
1000