Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 1015073387

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-25611

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Schmalenbach, Eugen http://d-nb.info/gnd/118608452

Title:: Selbstkostenrechnung und Preispolitik

Edition:: 6., erweiterte Auflage

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: G.A. Gloeckner, Verlagsbuchhandlung

Year of publication:: 1934

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 300 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Business and Management Classics

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Title:: Dritter Teil: Preispolitik

Collection:: Business and Management Classics

MAGDEBURG. 325 per capita consumption, viz., from 148 lbs. in the former to 138 lbs. in the latter year. The per capita consumption of 138 lbs. of fresh meat in 1905 was made up as follows :— Quantity. lbs. 64 8 509 7-1 4-6 • 4-0 . 6'6 1380 Proportion of all Meat. Per cent. 47-0 369 5-1 33 . -29 .48 100-0 Pork Beef Veal Mutton... Horseflesh Parts of various animals, e.g„, lung, liver, &c. Total Thus pork and beef together represent about 84 per cent, of the total consumption of fresh meat. The above figures comprise the meat of all animals killed in the Magdeburg slaughterhouse, as well as of all animals killed elsewhere, but passed through that establishment for inspection. They are not to be understood as implying that the whole of the meat to which they relate has been eaten fresh ; consequently they must be regarded as including the consumption of such articles as bacon, sausage, &c., in so far as fresh meat may have been converted into those articles after it has left the slaughterhouse. It has to be observed, moreover, that there is a considerable consumption of poultry and game in Magdeburg of which no record exists. Hares and wild rabbits are sufficiently cheap in comparison with present prices of butchers’ meat, to be largely consumed by working-class families. At the time of the writer’s visit to Magdeburg (December, 1906), a hare weighing 5J lbs. could be bought for 3s., that is to say at about Id. per lb., and a wild rabbit weighing lbs. for lid. to Is., or, say 4\d. per lb., both of which are prices considerably below those at which sound beef or pork could be bought. This may be seen from the following statement showing the predominant retail prices of various cuts of beef, pork, mutton and veal in Magdeburg in October, 1905 and December, 1906. Each price is based on statements supplied for the purpose of the present inquiry by a number of butchers in different quarters of the town. Predominant Prices paid by the Working Classes in October, 1905, and December, 1906. Predominant Price per lb. Description of Cut. October, 1905. December, 1906. Beef :— -IRibs ... ... ... Silverside or . ) with bone ( without bone... Stedik ... ... ... Flank Mutton :— Leg ... ... ... Shoulder Breast Neck Chops Veal :— Hindquarter Shoulder Loin Shin Pork :— I with bone without bone Leg Foreloin... Belly Spare Rib Chops 8# 8fd. to 9|d. 8# 9| d. 11 d. 7§d. to 8£d. 8| 8# d. to 9|d. 8# 9# lid. 7fd. to 8£d. 9£d. 8fd. to 9£d. 7£d. „ 8£d. 7# 9fd. 9£d. 8£d. to 9f d. 7\d. „ 8jd. 7# 9# 8£d; to 9f d. • - 8|d. 9# 8£d. to 9fd. 8# 8£d. to 9£d. 8# 9#d. 8fd. to 9£d 8£d. 9|d. 9£d. 8|d. 8# 9fd. to lid. 9£d. 9£d. '8# 8£d. 9|d. to lid.

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