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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DRESDEN. 205 illustrated by returns from 191 workmen’s families in Dresden, collected for the Board of Trade during the latter half of 1906 through the secretaries of various local trade unions, and amounted to only 20§ ounces per week, which would be about 67 lbs. per year. Of this amount 38 per cent, was beef, 26 per cent, pork and bacon, and 23 per cent, sausage. Were it possible to ascertain how much of this weekly meat supply was absorbed by the father of the family it would probably be found that very little remained for the wife and children. Indeed, statements made to the writer by members of trade unions and others acquainted with working-class ways of living point to the conclusion that the only member of the family who has meat regularly is the father' 1 . Appended is a statement of the prices of various joints of meat usually paid by the working classes in October, 1905, and in June, 1906 :— Predominant Price per lb. Description of Cut. Beef :— Ribs ... ... Silverside m ■ j with bone ( without bone Steak ... ... Flank Mutton :— Leg ... ... Shoulder Breast Neck Chops (trimmed) Veal :— Hindquarter Without “bon Shin Loin ... ... Pork :— Leg ... ... Foreloin ... Belly Spare Rib Chops October, 1905. 7|f?. 8ft?. to llf?. 8§d. 9# Is. If?, to Is. 3Ir?. 7# 9|f?. to Ilf?. 9# 7|í?. to 8|f?. 8# lit?. 9|f?. to Ilf?. 8|í?. to 9|f?. Ilf?, to Is. le?. 6&f?. 9|f?. to Ilf?. 9ff?. to Ilf?. 9 W. to Ilf?. 8# Ilf?, to Is. If?. June, 1906. 7%f?. 8fí?. to Ilf?. 8# 92f7. Is. If?, to Is. 3\d. 7§f?. 9|f?. to llf?. 9|f?. 7|í?. to 8|f? 8# llf?. 9|f?. to llf?. 8fí?. to 9|f?. llf?. to ls. lf?. 6|f?. 9|í?. to llf?. llf?. to ls. llf?. to ls. 9# Is. to ls. 2ff?. Here, again, it is to be borne in mind that the prices are those charged for those (more or less inferior) qualities of meat which are most generally bought by the working classes. It will be noticed that there were practically no changes in the prices of beef, mutton and veal, but the price of pork rose by a little more than Id. per lb. Representing predominant prices at Berlin by 100, the corresponding figures for Dresden are—for meat, 113 ; for other food, 103 ; foi coal, 8 , and for all commodities, 103. The index number for rent and pnces combined is 93.

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