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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306 LEIPZIG. 4s. 7d. per day, or, say, 25s. to 27s. 6<i. per week of 60 hours. The third class, comprising the general body of unskilled labourers, are paid from 3s. Id. to 4s. 2d. per day (21s. to 25s. per week of 60 hours) according to their service, and the fourth class, that of the lamplighters, 2s. 5d. to 2s. 10J. per week day, with 2s. Id. to 3s. for Sundays or holidays. The Parks and Public Gardens Department of the municipality employs on an average 270 workpeople (including 45 women) per week all the year round, the average number from April to September being 318, and from October to March, 222. The hours of labour are 10 in the spring and summer and from 9 to 9^ in the autumn and winter months. Of the 225 men employed in this branch, 176 are unskilled labourers, amongst whom the young and able-bodied are paid from 18s. to 21s., and the old and less capable from 14s. to 16s. per week of 60 hours. Gardeners on weekly wage are paid 23s. to 25s. The department concerned with the maintenance and cleaning of the streets employs from 400 to 500 men, including 280 street-sweepers working 54 hours per week, for which they are paid 19s. 6<A on the average ; the men in charge of gangs, of whom there are some 50, receive 2s. per week more. Compared with the other branches of the municipal service, the waterworks and electric lighting station employ little labour. The wages of 11 labourers returned as employed at the former in October, 1905, were 17s. 3d per week of 57 hours, while for August, 1906, 28 labourers were returned as earning 20s. 5d. per week of 60 hours. At the electric lighting station enginemen were paid 30s. and stokers 27s. per week of 64 hours, while fitters and installators were paid 28s. per week of 54 hours. The electric tramway service of Leipzig is in the hands of private companies. Housing and Rents. The housing conditions of the Leipzig working classes may be described as favourable in comparison with those of other German towns of the same size. The chief reason for this is to be found in the fact, already alluded to, that a very large proportion of the land lying within the town precincts is, and has for a long time been, owned by the municipality or administered by that body on behalf of certain city endowments. This land, of which the greater part remains open for the benefit of the community, is distributed over the entire urban area in such a way that dwellers in all parts of the town have ready access to some portion of it. It would in fact be difficult to find any street in Leipzig from which it would be necessary to walk more than a mile in order to reach one or other of the extensive recreation grounds at the disposal of the inhabitants. Where the municipality has sold public land for the erection of private houses—as it is constantly doing—it has been in a position to prescribe conditions which have ensured free access of light and air to the streets and dwellings erected on the new sites. The following Table shows the number of dwellings of different sizes in Leipzig on December 1st, 1905, and the distribution of the population among those dwellings :— Number of Rooms in Tenement. One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten and over Total Number of Tenements. Population housed in such Tenements. Total. 1,392 3,051 20,689 44,869 22,230 10,634 5,019 2,639 1,528 2,607 114,658 1,968 8,355 71,743 195,513 102,201 50,097 25,185 13,750 8,409 17,078 494,299 Per cent. 0- 4 1- 7 145 39-5 20 7 101 5-1 2- 8 1-7 3-5 100-0

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