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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XXlil Horseflesh.—So far as this item appears in the budgets it is included under “other meat,” and probably also to some extent under “sausage.” The following Tables based on the official reports issued by the municipal authorities of the towns investigated, summarise such data as are available in respect of the consumption of horseflesh in the towns investigated. It should be observed, however, that in some cases the municipal slaughter-house serves a somewhat larger area than that of the municipality. Where there are no entries exact data are not available. Consumption of Horsefesh, 1904 and 1905. Aachen Berlin... Bochum Brunswick Crefeld Dortmund Essen ... Hamburg Leipzig Munich Plauen Solingen Stassfurt Stuttgart Zwickau Population in 11)05. 144,048 2,040,148 118,464 136,397 110,344 175,577 231,396 802,793 503,672 538,983 103,810 50,209 18,310 246,988 68,502 Number of Horses Slaughtered. 1905. 1904 445 11,192 572 234 5171 805 848 4,436 o70(tons) 2,592 332 951 215+ 174 609 13,752 321 596* 916 1,125 5,360 817 (tons) 2,898 359 1,132 195 2845 285 * In 1905-6. t In 1904-5. Î Weighing 55 tons. § Weighing 72 tons. Population in 1905. Per capita Consumption of Horseflesh per annum. Barmen Bremen Breslau Chemnitz Dresden Königsberg Plauen Stettin 156,147 211,861 470,751 244,927 511,050 223,770 1904. lb. II 5,2 4 1 3 103,810 224,119 H 2 1905. lb. 2 6 4 24 1 31 In reference to this consumption of horseflesh it may be remarked that the meat may be sold only in the shops of butchers dealing in that commodity alone, and under the same strict municipal supervision as other meat. The prices are very much lower than those of other meat (the maximum price beino- in October, 1905, rarely more than b^d. a lb. for the best cuts, and the minimum being as low as 2¿tí?. a lb. in Mülhausen, Nuremberg and Plauen) ; but whilst this consideration is doubtless of importance in promoting the sale there is evidence also that in some cases the meat is eaten because of a real taste for it Turning to other articles of consumption, it will be seen that the number of Eggs rises steadily with the increase of income, from 4*2 in the lowest income class to 14 4 in the families with incomes of 40s. and above ; the average weekly expenditure thereon rising from 3\d. to Is. The rise in the amount of Fresh Milk is also very marked : the consumption per family with incomes under 20s. a week is 8| pints, and it rises to 14J pints in the highest income class but

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