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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247 HAMBURG (with ALTONA). One of the Free Cities of Germany and the country’s principal seaport, Hamburg is generally associated with the Prussian town of Altona, which forms its western prolongation. The division between the two towns is purely a political and administrative division, and their mercantile and industrial interests are inseparable. For that reason the two towns will, as far as possible, be associated in the present report. The town of Hamburg alone had a population in 1905 of 802,793, against 705,738 in 1900, showing an increase of 97,055, or 13*75 per cent. To the State of Hamburg belongs, however, a rural area, and in 1905 the population of that area was 72,085, against 62,611 in 1900, showing an increase of 9,474, or 15*13 per cent. Hamburg’s increase during the past 40 years, which have synchronised with Germany’s greatest industrial development, will be seen from the following Table :— Census year. Population. Intercensal Increase. Increase per cent, in intercensal periods of 5 years.* 1867 1871 1875 1880 1885 1890 1895 1900 1905 271,200 302,082 350,344 412,314 474,439 573,198 625,552 705,738 802,793 30,882 48,262 61,970 62,125 98,759 52,354 80,186 97,055 1139' 15 98' 17*69 15 07 20*82 9*13 12*82 13 75 Intercensal period of 4 years prior to 1875. During the years 1871 to 1890 the growth of population was due more to additions from without than to natural increase (i.e., excess of births over deaths), and this was particularly the case between 1885 and 1890, when 73 per cent, of the total increase of 103,910 within the State (98,759 falling to the town) was due to excess of immigration over migration outwards. Between 1890 and 1900 the position was reversed ; of the increase of 79,146 inhabitants in Hamburg alone (ships in harbour not counted) during the five years 1895- 1900, 47,961, or 61 per cent., was due to excess of births over deaths, and 31,185, or 39 per cent., to excess of immigration. During the last inter censal period the former tendency asserted itself ; for of an increase in the town of 97,055 between 1900 and 1905, 38,289, or 39 per cent., fell to natural growth, and 58,766, or 61 per cent., to excess of immigration. In the rural portions of the State the increase of population was attributable to these two causes in almost equal measure. The population of the inner districts of Hamburg has on the whole decreased for some years, by reason of the clearance of old residential property to make room for public buildings, and of the increasing diversion of houses to commercial purposes. The population of Altona in 1905 was 168,320, against 161,501 in 1900, showing an increase of 6,819, or 4*2 per cent. The results of the last six censuses and the rates of increase are shown below :— Intercensal Increase. Increase per cent Population. Census year. 108,873 126,306 143,249 148,944 161,501 168,320 1880 1885 1890 1895 1900 1905 17,433 16,943 5,695 12,557 6,819 16*01 13*41 398 8*4 42

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