Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 1738588467

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-115043

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

Place of publication:: Nairobi

Publisher:: East African Standard

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: VI, 337 Seiten; Ill.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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DÜSSELDORF. 207 the fact that Düsseldorf to-day combines all the activities and resources of a large industrial centre with the advantages of a residential town ; for the great works which have made Düsseldorfs wealth, and which give employment to the mass of its workpeople, are situated either entirely outside the town or on its extreme periphery. The appearance of the workmen creates on the observer a very favourable impression. They are well and neatly dressed, and the quality and condition of their attire seems to indicate that they go about the streets in one set of garments and work in another, a custom which is encouraged by the plentiful supply of lockers at the factories and workshops. It is also unusual to see workmen returning home unwashed, and here again the factory lavatories and baths must be cited in explanation. For some years the town has energetically pursued a policy of land purchase. In all quarters of the town and district eligible land is bought whenever a favourable opportunity offers, and gradually a very valuable estate is being built up. The idea is to lease or sell this land as the development of the town may require, so facilitating extensions where they are most desirable and combating unhealthy speculation by entering the market in competition with private individuals. A special fund has been set aside for the purpose of transactions in real estate, and the town is prepared to increase it as the success of this department of municipal trading may justify. Moreover, for the purpose of promoting healthy conditions of credit, the municipality in 1900 established a Mortgage Bank with a capital of a million pounds, raised on the credit of the town. The interest charged on advances is ^ per cent, more than the town pays for its own loans. Money is usually lent on dwelling houses up to 60 per cent, of the value, and on manufactories, inns and other business premises to a somewhat lower limit. Düsseldorf can claim relatively favourable vitality statistics. Its death rate in 1905 was 17 per 1,000 of the population, which was the lowest rate yet recorded, and the birth rate was 35T per 1,000, comparing with 40'7 per 1,000 in 1898, since when there has been a gradual decrease, though Düsseldorf here is not peculiar. The marriage rate in 1905 was 10T per 1,000, a rate only slightly below the average of the past ten years. The infant mortality rate in 1905 was 191 per thousand of the births, comparing with a maximum rate of 220 and a minimum of 176 during the past decade. The deaths from pulmonary consumption were equal to a rate of 1*47 per 1,000 of the population. The proportion of illegitimate to total births was 8 per cent. ; there has been a steady increase in the proportion from 6 4 per cent, in 1896 and 5*6 per cent, in 1899, the proportion of illegitimate births to the population having remained at about the same level, while the legitimate birth-rate has fallen over 4 per 1,000 of the population. The following Table shows the birth and death rates and the infantile mortality rate for a period of ten years :— Year. Birth rate per 1,000 of population. 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 39-8 39- 7 40- 7 395 38-9 38-3 373 36-0 35-6 35-1 Death rate per 1,000 of population. infantile mortality per 1,000 births. 18 3 19-9 191 202 19-4 188 183 17 3 18-0 17 0 184 220 206 209 197 206 176 188 204 191 Occupations, Wages and Hours of Labour. No exact data exist for determining the growth of the industrial population •of Düsseldorf during recent years, the most recent classification of the population according to occupations for which the data are av ailable oeing that obtained from the Industrial Census of 1895. Some idea of the growth of the principal

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