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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BREMEN. 101 An interesting light was thrown upon the earnings of manual workers in Bremen by the Municipal Commission which investigated the housing con ditions of the poorer classes in 1904. The incomes of 939 families were tabulated, and it was found that in 55*5 per cent, of the cases the earnings of the head of the family were not supplemented by earnings of wife or children, in 14 7 per cent, of the cases the wife earned, in 26*5 per cent, the children earned, and in 3*2 per cent, both wife and children earned. The total family income, including profits from lodgers, fell into the following groups :— Yearly Income. £30 and under From £30 to £40 „ £40 „ £50 „ £50 „ £60 » £60 „ £75 „ £75 „ £100 Over £100 Number of Families. 106 95 230 206 159 90 53 939 Percentage of the whole. 113 10-1 246 219 16-9 9-6 5*6 100-0 Housing and Rents. The fact has already been noted that the historical type of dwelling-house in Bremen is the single-family house, and this holds good, within limits, for rich and poor alike. Fewer working-class families, it is true, live in houses of this class than formerly, yet Bremen still continues to be essentially a town of small buildings ; though the four or five-story house has made its appearance it is an alien introduction, and is stamped as such by its isolated and incongruous position amongst the mass of lowlier structures. How slight is the progress made in Bremen by the modern large house, dominant elsewhere in Germany, will be seen from the following table showing the number of households per building and the number of persons per building at various periods from 1871 onward :— Year. Number of Households per Inhabited Building. 1871 1875 1880 1885 1890 1895 1900 1905 137 1-44 145 153 1-59 164 1-68 1-78 Number of Persons per Inhabited Building. 66 6-8 6- 9 7- 2 7-5 7-6 7-6 7-9 While the number of inhabitants per building has increased during the last 30 years, the increase is much less than that which has occuired in towns in which the barrack-house predominates. There are fewei inhabitants per bouse in Bremen than in any “ large town towns with a population of 100 000) in Germany ; in 1900 Crefeld came nearest to Bremen’s average of 7*6 persons per house with 13*96, and the next lowest figures were 15*82 in Cologne, 16*97 in Strassburg, and 17*44 in Aachen. It is noticeable that where the State of Bremen is susceptible to Prussian influence, viz., at Bremerhaven, the one-family house is the exception. In this town the number of households per building was 4*16 in 1905, and the number of inhabitants per building 20*1, against 2*79 and 14*7 respectively in 1871. At Lehe, across the Prussian frontier, the large house is supreme. The fact cannot be overlooked, however, that it becomes increasingly difficult to preserve the single-family house except on such a scale as to size and cost as only people of means can afford, and that houses for tne accommodation of two and three families are nowadays built more and more. Nevertheless, in

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