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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67 BARMEN. Barmen is one of the principal industrial towns of the Rhineland, and with its sister town Elberfeld, from which it is geographically inseparable, is situated in the Wupper Valley, one of the larger depressions of what is known as the Berg country, stretching roughly from the river Ruhr on the north to the Sieg on the south. The town may be said to devote the whole of its energies to manufacturing, in which respect (as well as in others) it differs from Elberfeld, a part of whose attention is absorbed in the business of exporting not only its own manufactures but also those of Barmen. Of the two towns, the latter has grown the less rapidly in the last 25 years. Its population at the end of 1905 was 156,000 as compared with 96,000 in 1880—an increase of 62^ per cent, while in Elberfeld the population has grown by 72^ per cent, during the same period. The population of Barmen at the last six censuses, and the increase in population during each intercensal period, is shown in the following Table :— Year of Census. Population. 1880 1885 1890 1895 1900 1905 95,951 103,068 116,141 126,992 141,944 156,080 Increase. Increase per cent. 7,117 13,073 10,851 14,952 14,136 74 12 7 93 11-8 10-0 The mean population, the birth-rate, death-rate, rate of natural increase, and rate of infant mortality of Barmen, for each of the last live years for which the figures are available, were as follows :— Death-rate Year. Mean Population. I Rate of Natural Increase Infant Mortality- rate per 1,000 Births. 1901 ... 1902 ... 1903 :.. 1904 ... 1905 ... Birth-rate per 1.000 of Mean Population. 33-4 142,650 16-4 17-0 138 316 16-2 146,421 154 129 31-0 14-2 16-8 149,671 111 153,800 31-0 144 16-6 137 30-2 14-9 155,500 15-3 143 The death-rate of Barmen is one of the lowest recorded in any German town ; and this is also true of the infant mortality-rate in spite of the fact that many married women are employed in the local factories. In outward appearance Barmen conveys an impression of greater prosperitv than its neighbour, Elberfeld. Narrow, tortuous streets are the exception. rather than the rule. Steep gradients are not wanting (one of these is ascended by an electric tramway on the cogged line principle) but, owing to the valley of the Wupper being wider here than at Elberfeld, the town is less hemmed in and the slopes are not disfigured by tier upon tier of tall tenement 29038 T o

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