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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DANTZIG. 171 are somewhat frequent in Dantzig, especially after drinking bouts. With reference to this, Commerzienrat Gibsone observes : " It is highly discouraging to the Municipal administration which expends every year nearly £50,000 on education, £27,000 going to the elementary schools, that a majority of the hooligans and knifers are young people, who not long ago left the elementary school. The overcrowded dwellings are an effective breeding ground for roughs of this kind, and the demoralizing effect of spirits does the rest.” The typical working-class dwelling in Dantzig consists of a flat of either two or three rooms, together with a separate compartment in the cellar and the use of the loft space beneath the roof for drying laundry. The closet arrange ments are good in so far as there exists a modern drainage system combined with the general use of flushing tanks. In the newer houses the closets are on the stair landings, usually in the proportion of one to every two families. In the older houses these conveniences are more frequently in the yard or air shaft, sometimes in the proportion of one to eight or ten families. Through the courtesy of the Municipal authorities it has been possible to ascertain the rents of 3,180 working-class tenements in different parts of the town and suburbs. Of these, 1,570 consisted of two and 1,610 of three rooms. The following statement shows the predominant rents which were being paid in 1906 in four different parts of Dantzig with large working-class populations :— Predominant Weekly Rent. Two Rooms. Three Rooms. Old Town Niederstadt (South, intra-mural) Alt Schotland (South, extra-mural) Schidlitz (West, extra-mural) Together .. 2s. 4(7. to 3s. 3d. 2s. 4d. „ 3s. 6d. 2s. Id. „ 2s. 6<7. Is. 10Æ „ 2s. 4d. 2s. 4d. to 3s. 3s. to 5s. 9d. 3s. 6<7. to 4s. Id. 2s. 9c?. „ 3s. 8(7. 2s. 8(7. to 3s. 3s. 6(7. to 4s. 7(7. It will be seen that in the two suburban districts of Alt Schotland and Schidlitz, which are comparatively new, the rents both for two-roomed and three-roomed tenements are lower than in the two older, intra-mural districts of the Old Town and Niederstaãt. Comparing these rents with those for Berlin and representing the latter by 100, the figure for Dantzig is 49. These rents include water rate but no other element of taxation for local purposes. Here, as elsewhere in Prussia, the bulk of the money îequired for local purposes is derived from a Municipal income tax, which is levied by the Municipal Authority at the same time as the State income tax, and bears a fixed proportion to the latter. In Dantzig this proportion is 188 per cent., and all incomes over £21 per annum are subject to the tax. The following 1 able shows the amount of yearly income tax for municipal purposes payable on the different income classes within which the majority of working-class families would fall Yearly Income. | ¿nmoiR ^ ?az. Over £21 to £33 „ £33 „ £45 „ £45 „ £52 10s. „ £52 10s. to £60 „ £60 to £67 10s. „ £67 10s. to £75 „ £75 to £82 10s. „ £82 10s. to £90 „ £90 to £105 . £ s. d. 0 4 6 0 7 6 0 11 3 0 16 11 12 6 1 10 0 1 19 6 2 8 10 2 18 4 29088

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