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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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