Cost of living in German towns

Bibliographic data

Monograph

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

80 BOCHUM. working classes, and its patrons include a large proportion of small depositors. At the end of 1904 the 21,007 depositors had accounts as follows :— Savings. No. of Depositors. ! Percentage of whole. To £3 inclusive Over £3 to £7 10s. inclusive „ £7]0s.„ £15 „ £15 „£30 „ £30 „£150 „ £150 „ £500 „ £o00 ... ... ... 3,960 2,916 9,73, 3 325 6,211 1,540 318 18-8 13 8 13 0 15-7 29 5 7-3 1*5 The statistics of population show that Bochum had a death rate in 1905 of 19'4 per 1,000. The death rate for the whole of Westphalia in that year was 18*3 per 1,000. The birth rate was 42*9 per 1,000 in 1905, comparing with a birth rate of 39*7 per 1,000 for all Westphalia. In 1903 the birth-rate of Bochum was 39'4 per 1,000 and the death-rate 20*5. The incorporation of the four outlying communes has thus been accompanied by a higher birth-rate and a lower death-rate. The illegitimate births in 1905 and 1904 were 3*1 per cent, of the whole, against a proportion of 2*6 per cent, for Westphalia generally. The deaths under one year were 151 per 1,000 births in 1905 against 174 per 1.000 in 1904. The deaths from tuberculosis in 1905 were at the rate of 5*6 per 1,000 of the population, against 4*2 per 1,000 in 1904. The following Table shows the birth and death-rates and the infantile mortality for the period of years :— Year. Birth-rate per 1,000 of Population. Death-rate per 1,000 of Population. Infantile Mortality per 1,000 births. 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 42 4 40 5 39*4 42 9 251 21*5 20-5 # 19-4 184 169 144 174 151 * Owing to the incorporation of several townships in this year the rate is not available. . Occupations, Wages, and Hours oe Labour. Of 134,279 workpeople employed in 1905, in 13 groups of industries carried on within the district of the Bochum Chamber of Commerce, 91,860, or 68*4 per cent., were engaged in coal mining ; 18,082, or 13*5 per cent., in smelting works ; 6,514, or 4*9 per cent., in metal manufacturing processes ; and 5,408, or 4 per cent., in machine works of various kinds ; and if to these be added o,814, or 4*3 per cent., employed in the mineral industries (ore raising, &c.), 9o*l per cent, of the whole were engaged in the various branches of the coal and iron industries. I he district of the Bochum Chambei of Commerce includes several large towns and a number of rural communes, yet, as the industrial character of the district is uniform, these figures faithfully reflect the predominant position of coal and iron in the economic life of the whole of this important part of Westphalia. Bochum merely typifies the rest of the Buhr coal basin. In the two mining districts of .North Bochum (in which the town falls) and South Bochum there were in work, in 1905, 2o pits, vith a total of 26,935 men (16,099 in North Bochum and 10,836 in South Bochum). Some of the collieries are within the municipal area, and even within call of busy commercial thoroughfares, but others are at a considerable distance from the town.

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Cost of living in German towns

Monograph

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation