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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298 KÖNIGSHÜTTE. On the other hand cattle are admitted from Austria while pigs are excluded. Before March 1st, 1906, when the new customs tariff came into operation, two- thirds of the beef supply of Königshütte came from Austria ; since then the proportion of Austrian beef has dropped to one-tenth of the whole, the remaining nine-tenths being German. No detailed statistics are forthcoming as to the quantities of the various kinds of meat consumed in the town, but according to the statement of the Director of the public slaughterhouse of Königshütte, the per capita consumption of pork and beef amounts together to 123 lbs. per annum, viz., 82 lbs. of pork and 41 lbs. of beef. (These figures, it should be observed, take no account of imports of dead meat.) As regards other kinds of meat, it appears that some 3,300 calves, some 300 sheep, and about the same number of horses are slaughtered annually for consumption in the town. Dogs may not be killed at the public slaughterhouse, but, according to the authority already mentioned, they are more frequently eaten in Upper Silesia than in any other part of Germany. The retail prices of meat, as ascertained from various butchers established in different parts of the town, are shown below for October, 1905 and August, 1906. It will be understood that these prices relate to meat of the quality usually bought by the working classes. Predominant Prices paid by the Working Classes in October, 1905, and August, 19Ò6. Description of Cut. Beef :— Ribs ... ... Silverside Shin, with bone Steak Flank Mutton :— Leg ... ... Shoulder Breast Neck Chops, (trimmed) Veal :— Hindquarter Í with bone Shoulder . Shin Loin Pork :— Leg Foreloin ... Belly Spare rib f 1 without bone Chops Predominant Price per lb. October, 1905. 7# 7# 6\d. to 71d. 7$d. „ 8¿d. 6id. 8\d. to 9%a. 7# 7# 7# 8|d. to 9|d. 8fd. 71d. to 8fd. lid. 7|d. 81d. to 8fd. 7# » *|d. 81d. Id. S$d. to 8|d. August, 1906. 7# 7# 6^d- to 7fd. 7# 8|d. 6&d. 8|d. to 9fd. 7|d. 7%d. 7# 8fd. to 9|d. 8|d. 7|d. to 8fd. lid. 73d. 8fd. to 8|d. 7 |d. „ 8fd. 8jd. Id. 8Id. to 8|d. The Table shows that the prices of meat as bought by the working classes were exactly the same in August, 1906 as in October, 1905. The lowness of these prices compared with those paid in the other industrial towns for which corresponding data have been obtained in the course of the present inquiry is noteworthy, having regard to the relaxation, in favour of Königshütte and the other Upper Silesian towns, of the law prohibiting imports of foreign live stock, nor is it possible to suggest any other explanation of the fact that among working-class families, far more meat is consumed in Königshütte than in any of the 32 other German cities investigated. Returns furnished by 55 typical working-class households consisting of 270 persons and representing different ranges of yearly income showed an average weekly consumption of only a little less than 3 lbs., or at the rate of 154 lbs. a year. Of this, 54 per cent, was pork and bacon, 25 per cent, beef, and 15 per cent, sausage.

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