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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284 KÖNIGSBERG. Groceries and other Commodities. The subjoined table summarises the data supplied in response to personal inquiries made among shop-keepers in different parts of Königsberg dealing in groceries, dairy produce and coal, as to the predominant retail prices of those articles at October, 1905, and November, 1906. Predominant Prices paid by the Working Classes in October, 1905, and November, 1906. Predominant Price. Commodity. Coffee Sugar, White Granulated Bacon :— Fat Streaky ... Eggs Cheese, Tilsit Butter Margarine ... Potatoes Flour :— Wheat Rye Bread, Rye ... Milk ... Coal ... ... Paraffin Oil ... per lb. per Is. per lb. per 7 lb. per 4 lb. per quart per cwt. per gallon October, 1905. November, 1906. lid. 2id. 8# lid. Is. Id. to Is. 2\d. 7|d. 2W., 3d. 11 \d. 9\d. 4%d. 2\d. Is. Id. lid. lid. 2\d. 8gd. ’. to 1 12* 8|d. Is. Ifd. to Is. 2fd. 7fd. 2#, 3d. 9fd. to lid. 11 Id. 9f d. 5 fd. 2 fd. Is. 4d. lid. A few remarks are appended by way of comment on the prices of some of the above articles. The coffee most generally bought by working-class families is described as a “ mixture,” and invariably costs 1 mark per German, or lid. per English lb. Occasionally the “mixture” is described as “ Java,” or “ Campinas ” (Brazilian) coffee. The compound from which the domestic coffee is brewed, however, contains a considerable proportion of coffee substitutes such as roasted malt at 2\d. per lb. The sugar most frequently bought by working-class families is a fine white granulated variety described as Gemahlene Baffinade, and costs a little over 2\d. per lb. The consumption of this sugar is about nine times as great as that of all the other varieties together. What has been said in the reports on other towns with regard to bacon applies also to Königsberg. There are two varieties ; one consists of solid fat cut from the back, and the other is “ streaky” and cut from the belly of the pig. The “ streaky ” bacon costs 11 d. while the fat is sold for 8fd. per lb. Notwithstanding the proximity of the Russian frontier the local shopkeepers are unanimous in stating that only native eggs are consumed in Königsberg. The popular cheese is Tilsit, at 8\d. per lb. The bread most generally eaten is made entirely of rye, and is scarcely as dark in colour as any of the brown breads sold by bakers in England. The quantity almost invariably purchased at a time by the workman’s wife is the loaf costing 50 pfennige, or 6<A The next size is the loaf at 30 pfennige, or about 3\d. While the prices of these loaves never vary, the weight is constantly changing, nor is it the same in any two bakeries. In order to be able to trace the movement in the price of bread, the municipal statistical office has for some years pursued the plan of causing a number of loaves and rolls to be bought every week at various shops in different parts of the town. The goods are then brought to the statistical office and weighed separately so that the average weight may be arrived at. To obviate errors arising from the difference in weight between fresh bread and stale, all the goods bought must be 24 hours old. It may be added that the matter is so arranged that the baker does not know when the test loaves are being bought. At October, 1905, on the average of 4 weekly weighings of 11 loaves each, the 50 pfennige loaf was found to

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