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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190 DRESDEN“. 15*0 per cent, in the case of the deaths. The corresponding fall in the infant mortality-rate is 10*4 per cent. Year. Birth-rate per 1,000 of mean Population. Death-rate per 1,000 of mean Population. 1901.. . 1902.. . 1903.. . 1904.. . 1905.. . 32 6 313 314 303 28 2 18-0 17-0 17*4 17-7 17-7 Infantile Mortality per 1,000 Births. 190 165 192 192 211 There are few German cities in which municipal enterprise covers a wider field than in Dresden, where the Town Corporation affords direct employment to a larger number of workpeople than any single private employer. According to a recent report issued by the Municipal Statistical Office, there were, on 1st February, 1906, 3,505 " workpeople ” in the direct employ of the municipality. The term “ workpeople ” is here used in a limited, technical sense, with the result that only 517 of a total of 2,606 employees, who were taken over by the local authority when the electrical tramways were municipalized in 1905, are included in the above total ; the bulk of the tramway servants being omitted as being either above or below the rank of “ workpeople,” that is to say, they were either Beamten (officials) or Hilfsar beiter (not fully competent workpeople). The officials, who number some 1,450, include the tramway drivers and conductors. When the whole body of tramway servants are included the number of workpeople in the employment of the Dresden municipality amounts to some 5,600, of whom 77 are women. The distribution of the male workpeople among the various branches of municipal service was as follows on 1st February, 1906 :— Branch of Service. Electrical tramways Road and sewer construction and repair Gas works Street cleaning Electrical power generation and distribution Water works Parks and gardens Other branches of municipal service Total Number of Workpeople. 2,600 1,124 770 537 194 111 104 115 5,555 Occupations, Wages, and Hours of Labour. In Dresden, as in other towns in the Kingdom of Saxony, an enumeration takes place every year of the workpeople employed in the various branches of manufacturing industry, in. so far as the work is carried on in establishments subject to inspection under the Factory and Workshop Laws. Of the figures obtained in this way the latest available are those relating to the year 1904 These show that 18,000, or about 28 per cent, of all the workpeople belonging to establishments of the kind enumerated, were employed in the manufacture of metal goods, machines, and mechanical appliances. Some of the principal establishments in this group are those engaged in making kitchen fittings and photographic apparatus. The next most important group is that of the food, etc. preparation trades with 14,000 workpeople, including 5,600 cigarette and cigar makers, 3,000 chocolate and sweetmeat makers, and 1,600 brewery workers. The manufacture of various articles of wood and straw gave employment to 5,600 workpeople ; 4,400 were employed in the manufacture of porcelain pottery and cement wares (among the last-named more especially cement drain pipes), while 3,100 were employed in the manufacture of paper goods. In the

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