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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KÖNIGSBERG. 287 Part of the meat consumed by the less prosperous working-class families is of distinctly inferior quality, inasmuch as it consists of parts of the carcases of animals which have been found by the public meat inspectors to be suffering from disease. One hundred and thirty tons of such meat were sold at the Freibank or municipal meat-stall in Königsberg in the year ended March 31st, 190b. Of this quantity some 15 tons had to be boiled before being offered for sale, as a precaution against injury to health. The lowness of the price of this meat as compared with that charged for sound meat by private tradesmen proves a great attraction to the poorer classes, as is evident from the rapidity with which each fresh supply offered at the Freibank is cleared out. Prices of Inferior Meat at Municipal Meat-stall (Freibank) in Königsberg, 1905-6. Raw. Boiled. Beef Pork Veal Mutton Por lb. 4\d. to 6rf. 3\d. to 4\d. 3|d. to 5\d. Per lb. 3Id. to 4jd. 3|d. to 5d. 3\d. to 3|d. Butchers are not allowed to purchase meat at the municipal meat-stall, and only a strictly limited quantity may be bought by any one person on one and the"same day, the object being to prevent people purchasing otherwise than for their own consumption or that of their family. The general level of prices in Königsberg is about the same as in Berlin, but the variation in respect of the different kinds of commodities is consider able. Thus, taking prices at Berlin as 100, the index numbers for Königsberg are 113 for meat and 97 for other food, the figure for these two groups combined being 100 ; the price of coal is represented by 108, while for all commodities the figure is 101. The index number for rent and prices combined is 93.

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