Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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50 AACHEN. Guild, is a loaf of black bread, made of pure rye once ground, weighing 2 kilogrammes or 4 4 lb. English and sold in October, 1905, at the uniform price of A^d. per 4 lb. English. Much “ grey ” bread (made of rye mixed with wheat), and “ white ” bread (wheat mixed with rye) is also eaten, and what the Guild of Bakers calls a “household” bread, made of rye and wheat, is baked in small loaves. Wheaten flour is only used in working class households for fancy baking and the predominant price was ll^rf. to Is. O^c/. per 7 lb. ; rye flour is not sold at all by retail dealers. Nearly the whole of the bread supply is baked by small bakers, for the factory baker is very rare at Aachen. Coal is the usual fuel ; briquettes are also used, but coke hardly at all. Coal is sold by the bushel, a measure which should contain half a hectolitre, but which is a very uncertain indicator of weight. Probably not one coal dealer in twenty is able to guess how much coal he sells as a bushel, though he himself buys by weight ; everything depends on the class of coal, its size, and its degree of humidity, uncertain factors which explain a variability extending from 75 to 100 pounds German, the latter equal to the English hundred weight. The ruling price is about Is. per cwt. Predominant prices paid by the working classes in October, 1905, and May, 1906. Commodity. Predominant Price. October, 1905. May. 1906. Coffee Sugar : — Loaf ... ... White Granulated Bacon :— Fat Streaky Eggs, Foreign Cheese :— Dutch Limburg Swiss Butter Margarine ... Potato.es Flour (Household) Bread (Rye)... Milk ... Coal ... ... ... Paraffin Oil per lb. per Is. per lb. per 7 lb. per 4 lb. per quart per cwt. per gallon lid. 2\d. to 3d. 9# 11 d. 13 8£(7. to 11 d. 5(7. 11 d. to Is. 1 d. Is 8 f(7. 3t7. 111(7. to Is 41(7. 1(7. to Is. 2|(7. 0f(7. 2|(7. Is. 10(7. 11(7. 2# 2# 8|d. 9|(7. 14 8f(7. to 11(7. 5(7. 11(7. to Is. 1(7. Is. 1(7. 8£(7. 3(7. ll\d. to Js. 01(7. 4^(7. 2|(7. Is. 10(7. Meat. A comparison of the slaughterings at the public abattoir during recent years shows a marked diminution in the case of oxen and other cattle, sheep, calves, and latterly also in pigs, but an increase in horses : Oxen and steers Other cattle ... Pigs ... Sheep Calves Horses and ponies 1900. 3,294 4,840 24,365 8,193 17,639 466 1901. 3,408 4,571 22.932 8,093 17.932 473 1902. 1903. 3,760 4,027 23,362 7,552 16,492 466 3,582 3,984 28,629 6,378 16,084 431 1904. 3,370 4,013 30,848 6,026 16,433 445 1905. 3,052 4,300 23,411 6,519 15,899 609 The working classes oí Aachen are not large

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