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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110 BREMEN. Predominant Prices paid by the Working Classes in October, 1905, and April, 1907. Predominant Price. Commodity. Coffee Sugar :— Loaf ... ... White granulated Bacon : — Fat Streaky Egge, Foreign Cheese :— Dutch Limburg Swiss ... Butter Margarine Potatoes Flour :— Wheat... Rye ... Bread :— Black ... Grey ... Milk Coal Coke Paraffin Oil per lb, per Is. per lb. » per 7 lbs. per 4 lbs. » per quart, per cwt. per gallon October, 1905. lid. 2# 2# 8fd. to 9|d. 8fd. to 9|d. 14 8f d. 6&d. 9f<7. to Is. Id. Is. id. 6W. to 8|d. 2\d. Is. Ifd. 9\d. to KM. 4# 5\d. 2#d. Is. 4id.* 9|d. to 10\d. 10^6?. April, 1907. 11 d. 2\d. 8id 8^(7. 17 lid. 6W. lid. Is. id. 6$e?. to 8M 2^. Is. lid. 9£d. to 10c?. 4# 6^. 2| d. Is. 4 id.* 10W. to 11W. 10 \d. * Coal is frequently also sold by the “ Eimer ” of about .15 lb. ; in such quantities the price is about Is. 8\d. Meat. The consumption of meat per head shown by the annual returns of the public abattoir is relatively high. The Municipal Statistical Office has for some years kept a record of the meat consumption per head of the population, based on the amount of meat which passes through the public and private abattoirs and the amount imported. Since 1901, however, the estimate has not included imported meat, so that the figures for the years 1902-1905 are not comparable with those for earlier years. Since 1901 the consumption, less meat imported, has been as follows :— 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. 1906. Beef Pork Veal Mutton Horse Lbs. 3927 4913 15-27 4*05 6 75 Total 114-47 Lbs. 39 64 56 21 13-81 3 81 5 57 119-06 * Including goat. Lbs. 3927 5630 12-61 3-61 5-61 117-39 Lbs. 40 52 55 84 12 83 3 65* 5-98 119-00 Lbs. 39-66 55 26 11-04 3-41 5T7 114-54 It will be seen that nearly half the meat consumed is pork, while the consumption of beef is about a third of the whole. Here, as elsewhere in Germany, mutton is but little esteemed. An estimate based solely upon returns of working-class meat consumption obtained for this enquiry from 204 households containing 920 persons, showed an average weekly consumption of 30^ ounces, or at the rate of 99^ lb. per year. Of this 35 per cent, was pork and bacon, 29 per cent, was sausage, and 26 per cent, beef ; mutton amounted to only 1 per cent

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