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. 187 i “ Semmel,” which is a white bread with currants, and is said to be baked especially for Sundays. The usual price of black all-rye bread in October, 1905/ was 4d. to od. for 4 lb., of grey bread 4Jd. to 5Jd., and of white (wheat) bread 5\d. to l\d. for the same weight. The varieties of cheese mostly eaten ate Limburg, costing 5d. to 5Jd. per lb., Dutch costing 8fd., Swiss costing 11 d./ and Tilsit costing 9^¡d. Of 16,943 lb. of cheese sold in 1905-6 by the Co-operative Society named above 8,400 lb. were of Limburg and 5,120 lb. were Dutch. The coffee generally bought costs lid. per lb., but cheap substitutes are mixed with it to a large extent. Predominant Prices paid by the Working Classes in October, 1905, and September, 1907. Commodity. Predominant Price. October, 1905. September, 1907. Coffee Sugar :— Loaf ... ... White granulated Bacon :— ~Fat ... Streaky Eggs, Country. Cheese :— Dutch Limburg Swiss... Tilsit... Butter ... Margarine Potatoes Flour :— Wheaten Rye ... Bread :— White Black Grey ... Milk ... Coal Paraffin... per lb. per Is. per lb. per 7 lb.* per 1 lb. per quart per cwt. per gallon lid. 2&d. 2\d., 2\d. 8|d. to 9§d. ‘ ‘ „ lid. 12 9§d 8§d. 5d. to 51d. lid.“ 9¿d. Is. l|d. 8|d. 2\d. to 2fd. 9\d, „ lOfd. lOd. 5fd. to 7fd. 4d. „ 5d. , ,, 5^d. 2|d. — 9|d. to lid. 9fd. „ 9Jd. #d: lid. 2 id. 2|d. 8§d. 8|d. to 9|d. 8,, 9 8# 5^d. lid. to Is. 9\d. Is. lfd. to Is. 2|d. 8#d. 2\d to 2|d. 11 \d. to Is. O^d. Is. Ofd. 71d. 4fd. to 5¿d. 6d. „ 7d. 2|d. 9#d. to Is. O^d. * - lid. * Sold in quantities of 110 lb. Mmf. '/ ï The following is a record of the animals killed at the municipal slaughter house during the years 1904 and 1905 : — 1904. Cattle ... Pigs ... Calves... Sheep ... Horses 14,708 51,151 12,745 3,654 805 1905. 16,436 40,888 13,176 4,553 916 The working classes eat for the most part beef, pork, and bacon, with dusage of which these kinds of meat are the principal ingredients. Returns >f weekly expenditure on meat made to the Department in 1907 by’ 273 house holds, representing 1,341 persons, showed a consumption of about l^ lb. per head, iqual to 92# lb. per annum. Of this 39 per cent, was pork and bacon, 28 per :ent. beef and 25 per cent, sausage ; mutton was only a little over 1 per cent. Chis consumption compares with 78'92 lb. per head per annum shown by imilar working-class returns in the neighbouring colliery town of Bochum and *3'29 lb. shown in Essen. 29088 2 A 2

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