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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BRESLAU. 119 inîthe remaining 8,971 the occupiers paid no rent either because they were the owners or in consideration of some service rendered, e.g., by a person who acts as general caretaker and collector of rents for the whole of the tenements in a large building and discharges the duty imposed by the municipality on the houseowner of cleansing the footpath and part of the roadway outside the house every day. The following Table gives a classification of the 92,157 rented dwellings according to their size (number of rooms), and shows the manner in which the population was distributed among the tenements of different size :— Number of Rooms in Tenement. 1 room 2 rooms 3 " 5 or more rooms Number of Tenements. 6,206 41,707 21,106 11,331 8,807 92,157 Population housed in each class of Tenement. Total. 14,318 169,016 89,649 48,760 45,503 367,216 Per cent. 39 46-0 244 133 124 1000 From the above it will be seen that practically three-fourths (74\3 per cent.) of all persons who rented their dwellings occupied three rooms or less, and that ■close upon one-half (49*9 per cent.) lived in two rooms or less. The number of dwellings consisting of a whole house is so small as to be negligible. Over 99 per cent, of the dwellings enumerated at the census of 1900 were situated on one or other of the floors of a tenement house. This will be seen from the following statement :— Situation of Dwelling. Proportion of all Dwellings so Situated. Cellar (basement) Ground floor 1st floor... 2nd „ ... 3rd „ ... 4th „ ... 5th „ (or higher) On more than one floor Per cent. 38 157 200 20 6 201 16 8 2*1 09 1000 The few dwellings which consist of the whole of a house are comprised among those whose position is described as u on more than one floor, a group which represents less than 1 per cent, of all dwellings. What are known as “ cellar ” or basement tenements {Keller-Wohnungen) are to be seen much more frequently in Breslau than in the cities of West Germany. Their occupants in very many cases carry on the business of green grocer and huckster in the room which is entered from the street and live in the back part of the premises. Nearly 15,000 persons were found to be living in 3,853 basement tenements at the end of the year 1900. How far matters have improved since the year 1900 in respect of ■overcrowding and the occupation of tenements cannot be stated in figures until the detailed results of the latest housing enumeration (December, 1905) have been published. An investigation was, however, made in 1905 by the Association of Local Sick Funds (for the statutory Insurance of Workpeople against Sickness) into the housing of members on the sick list, and the conclusion arrived at was that matters had not improved. I he Report speaks of damp cellar dwellings, dark and windowless rooms, absence of ventilation and heating arrangements, of beds shared by sick and well, and of overcrowding of an aggravated kind.

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