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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302 LEIPZIG. 2 The following’ Table shows the birth, death and infantile mortality rates for the five years 1901-5 : — Birth rate per 1,000 of population. Death rate per 1,000 of population. Infantile mortality per 1,000 births. 1901 1902 1903 1901 1905 330 315 301 301 29 3 18*6 16-2 17 9 18-1 17 3 235 189 244 243 229 In point of infant mortality Leipzig oceupies a middle position among the five principal cities of Saxony. To every 1,000 births in 1905 there were 229 deaths of infants under one year old. The corresponding rates for Zwickau and Chemnitz were much higher than this, viz., 291 for the former and 286 for the latter, while those for Dresden and Plauen were somewhat lower, viz., 211 and 204 respectively. As in all other German cities the rate of infant mortality has been declining in the last 15 years. Thus, wLereas the proportion of deaths of infants under one year old to every 1,000 births in Leipzig averaged 253 during the quinquennial period 1891-5, in 1901-5 it had fallen to 228. Occupations, Wages and Hours of Labour. Though its wealth has been acquired by trading, Leipzig has in recent times been assuming more and more of the character of an industrial town, and as such it now claims to have surpassed Chemnitz. It had on May 1st, 1905, a total of 71,001 workpeople employed in 1,649 establishments subject to inspection as factories or workshops. The following Table shows the distribution of these workpeople among the principal groups of trades :— Group of Trades. Building Metal-working and engineering Textiles Clothing Printing and allied trades Bookbinding, &c Woodworking and carving Food, drink, and tobacco ... Other Total . . Number of Establishments. 33 411 38 345 225 96 114 210 177 1,649 Number of Workpeople. 905 21,166 9,640 5,465 15,213 6,458 2,926 3,562 5,666 71,001 The great prominence of the printing and allied trades among the industries of Leipzig is reflected in the above figures, no less than 321 establish ments, with 21,671 operatives, being employed either in printing and similar processes or in bookbinding, &e. A considerable number, moreover, of the 21,166 operatives grouped under the heading " metal-working and engineering” are employed in the production of various kinds of plant required in printing and bookbinding works. Under the same heading are comprised the manu facture of agricultural machines, wood-working machines, pianos, music-boxes, type-wu'iting machines and motor-car bodies. The next in importance among the industries of Leipzig is the woollen and worsted manufacture (wool and worsted spinning, wool-combing and wool-weaving). Among the wood-wmrking trades, furniture-making and parquet-laying are greatest in local importance. The building trades are practically unrepresented in the Table, being usually carried on under conditions which exclude them from the operation of the Factory and Workshop Acts. Acccording to an estimate made by the local Trades Council there are some 14,000 workpeople in these trades in Leipzig. Both as regards the numerical strength of its labour organisations and the influence of these organisations on local labour conditions, Leipzig stands out prominently among the great cities of Germany. On January 1st, 1907, the

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