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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174 DANTZIG. Meat. The meat consumed in Dantzig consists almost entirely of produce of the immediate Prussian hinterland, and includes no foreign meat whatever. The fact is a subject of loud complaint among all classes of the population, who regard it as the cause of the increasing dearness, and declining consumption of meat in the town. As evidence of the rise in the price of the two staple flesh foods, pork and beef, in Dantzig during the ten years 1897-1906, the following official average retail market prices may be adduced. In the source from which the figures are taken # it is stated that the prices are for meat of medium quality (Durchschnittswaare), and that they are based on the mean of the prices for cuts from the leg and from the belly respectively. The former, it may be noted, are usually understood to represent pure lean, while the latter contain strata of fat. The prices are shown in pfennige per kilogram, in order that the fluctuations may be more easily discernible, f Mean Prices of Pork and Beef in the Retail Market of Dantzig 1897-1906. Retail price per Kilogram in Pfennige. Pork. 117 128 123 113 129 135 120 116 145 159 Beef. 113 116 121 121 123 124 133 130 135 147 Year. 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 It appears therefore that in 1906 pork was 36 per cent, and beef 30 per cent, dearer than in 1897. While the former fluctuated considerably and reached its lowest prices in 1900 and 1904, the movement of beef prices has been steadily upward except between 1903 and 1904. For both kinds of meat the rise has been sharpest since the latter year. In that year a pound of pork cost 6^<A, and a pound of beef 7d., while in 1906 the former cost 8|/7. and the latter 8d. The statistics of meat consumption prepared by the Municipal slaughter house show the per capita consumption of meat in Dantzig to have been as follows :— 1897. lbs. 148 1898. lbs. 135 1899. lbs. 149 1900. lbs. 151 1901. lbs. 133 1902. lbs. 113 1903. lbs. 117 1904. lbs. 119 Figures for the years subsequent to 1904 are not obtainable, but those for the eight years shown above indicate that the price of pork has a dominant influence on the total consumption of meat, for, with a rise in the price of pork, we find a decline in the total consumption of meat, and vice versa. Nor is this surprising having regard to the fact that the weight of pork consumed in the year exceeds that of all the other kinds of meat taken together. The exact proportion in Dantzig as shown by the report of the Municipal Slaughterhouse Administration for 1904,! are as follows : Pork, 58 per cent. ; beef, 30 per cent. ; * Statistisches Jahrbuch für das Deutsche Reich, 1907, p. 235. t Kilogram = 2 2 lbs. avoirdupois. 100 pfennige = about Is. { Verwaltungsbericht über den Städtischen Schlacht- und Viehhof zu Dantzig für das Jahr 1904. Dantzig, 1905, pp. 14-15.

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