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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DORTMUND. '482 The following were the weekly wages of employees in the municipal and other public services at the same date :— Weekly Wages. Street and Road Department Road-makers Paviors ... Paviors 1 labourers Road sweepers ... Sewer labourers Excavators 21s. 37 s. 10 d. 22s. 10(7. 18s. to 21s. 21s. 21s. to 22s. 6(7. Weekly Hours of Labour. 63 63 63 63 63 63 Gasworks (private) Stokers ... Labourers 28s. 6(7. 22s. 6(7. 60 60 Waterworks :— Labourers 21s. to 22s. 6(7. 60 Tramways :— Drivers ... Conductors Electricity Works :— Engine-men Stokers ... Fitters and Installers 23s. 3(7. to 28s. 9(7.* 22s. 6¿7. » 28s. 9(7.* 27s. 8(7. to 34s. 7(7. 27s. 8(7. „ 34s. 7(7. 27s. 8(7. „ 34s. 7(7. 60 60 60 72 60 Rising to this maximum by yearly increments of about Is. 2(7. weekly. Housing and Rents. It has already been remarked that the municipal authorities have been very active in the enforcement of building regulations, and one result of this is that in the newer parts of the towns slums do not exist, and can hardly come into being in the future, whilst in the older streets they are rapidly being cleared away. There are, of course, many poor streets in which the housing conditions are very unsatisfactory, but there are few absolute slums. There are very few “back-to-back” houses, and no basement dwellings. The sanitary administra tion of the town is good. The predominant type of house is one of three or four stories (including the ground floor and the attics, if such exist) in a new and broad street, and intended for six or eight families : generally it is of brick faced with stucco. The normal dwelling is of two or three rooms, including the kitchen, which here is always reckoned in the number of rooms ; each tenant must provide his own stoves, and usually therefore the number of rooms which are heatable depends on the means and inclination of the tenant. Of 2,793 dwellings whose rents were classified for the purpose of this report, 1,320 or 47 3 per cent, consisted of two rooms and 1,156 or 41*4 per cent, of three rooms. The following Table shows the number of dwellings and rooms in 1900, the latest year for which the detailed figures are available : — No. of rooms. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 or more No. of dwellings. Total 874 8,456 5,583 1,854 969 546 152 70 28 49 18,581 Percentage of the whole. 4- 7 45-5 30-0 10-0 5- 2 29 •8 •4 •2 •3 1000

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