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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CHEMNITZ. 139 every 1,000 born was 302, as compared with 329 during 1896-1900 and 355 in 1891-95. Compared with that for 1891-95, the figure for 1901-05 thus showed a decline of 15 per cent. In spite of this decline the infant mortality rate of Chemnitz is still very high, being twice as great as that of Barmen, where the pioportion of the female population employed in factories is larger. The subject is one to which the Chemnitz Municipality has given much attention in recent years, and some success appears to have attended their efforts to cope with one at least of the causes of the evil, viz., the neglect or inability of women of the poorer classes to feed their children at the breast. Since 1904 a record has been kept by the authorities in respect to each child born as to whether or not it has been nursed by its mother during the first year of life. A comparison of the figures for 1904 and 1905 with those obtained by a special but partial inquiry covering the years 1901-3 shows that the proportion of breast-fed children has increased from 51*7 per cent, in 1901 to 69T per cent, in 1905. Among the means adopted in order to promote the proper feeding of infants among the poorer classes is that of free distribution of milk to the amount of a litre per day through the medical officers. Occupation, Wages and Hours of Labour. Among the many industries of Chemnitz those of machine-making and the manufacture of textile goods are by far the most developed. Of the 54,178 persons employed in factories or workshops subject to inspection in Chemnitz in 1905, 21,881 (or 40 percent.) were engaged in making machines and mechanical appliances of various kind, while 18,746 (or 35 per cent.) were engaged in the textile trades. The 21,881 operatives employed in machine-making include 4/10 working in establishments where only textile machinery is made ; 5,746 engaged in making other kinds of machinery, and 4,162 in tool making. Of the 18,746 persons employed in the textile trades, the most important group consists of 8,000 engaged in hosiery making, while 4,469 are employed in weaving mixed goods (including curtain net and upholstery material), 1,655 in cotton or cashmere spinning, and 3,025 in dyeing and finishing textile goods of various sorts, more especially hosiery. Among the other industries of some local im portance may be mentioned the paper and cardboard trades, employing 1,453 workpeople of whom 843 are engaged in making cardboard goods of various sorts. The Chemnitz industries, however, afford employment to a larger number of workpeople than would appear from the foregoing figures, which relate only to persons working in factories or in such workshops as are subject to inspection, and take no account of the building trades, or of the large number of people who, although not living in Chemnitz itself, but in one or other of the surrounding towns and villages of the Erzgebirge, nevertheless work regularly for Chemnitz firms, either directly as home workers, or indirectly as operatives in rural factories executing orders for Chemnitz firms. The following Table shows the number of workpeople employed in certain groups of trades in establishments subject to industrial inspection : Number of Workpeople. Groups of Trades. Metal working... ... ••• Machine, implement and apparatus making Textiles... Clothing and cleaning ••• Printing, lithography, bookbinding, &c. ... Paper ••• Woodworking and carving ... Chemicals Resins, varnishes, oils, soaps, candles, &c.... Stone and earth ••• ... Food, drink and tobacco Leather... Males over 16 years. Females over 16 years. 4,125 19,768 4,939 276 787 533 1,590 1!6 288 812 1,147 184 34,605 515 12,021 528 412 758 98 196 15 20 287 5 14,943 Juvaniles 14 to 16 years. 414 1,518 1,701 43 133 134 152 60 4 30 107 11 4,307 Children under 14 years. 23 80 85 29 20 28 23 8 1 24 o 323 Total. 4,650 21,881 18,746 876 1,352 1,453 1,863 420 308 862 1,565 202 54,178 S 2 29088

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