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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312 LEIPZIG. sales of the same two societies, from which it appears that of a total of 375,000 lbs. of sugar sold in 1904-05, 288,000 lbs. were of that kind. As regards bacon, the observations made in other reports—e.g., Düsseldorf, Königsberg, Chemnitz—apply equally to Leipzig. Margarine is not eaten as a substitute for butter, but like fat bacon is used for cooking. The sales of one co-operative society show a total of 85,000 lbs. of margarine against 170,000 lbs. of butter in 1904-05. The domestic consumption of rye hour is very small. In the returns of one co-operative society this article does not appear at all ; in those of another it figures in the sales to the quantity of 2,030 lbs. against 189,500 lbs. of wheaten flour. The bread most generally consumed by all classes of the population is made entirely from rye and usually sold in large loaves of the nominal weight of either 4 or 8 German lbs. No statutory weight is prescribed, however, so that the loaf varies with the price of flour. The price shown in the Table for September, 1906, is calculated from the actual weight of loaves on sale at a number of establishments visited on certain days in that month, while the price for October, 1905, can only be regarded as approximate, since it was impossible to ascertain the actual weight of loaves sold at that time. Coal is very sparingly used by the working classes in Leipzig. Fires, once lighted, are kept burning with briquettes, or else with coke dust (Grute), either of which can be had at 4d. or 5d. the hundredweight, that is to say, at one-third the price of coal. Fires " banked ” with coke dust in the evening are found to be still alight next morning. Meat. Besides Hamburg, Leipzig is the only large industrial city in Germany where the private butcher has to compete with the co-operative society for the custom of the working classes. The largest of the three co-operative societies referred to elsewhere has nine shops for the sale of fresh meat, its sales of that article in 1905-6 amounting to £62,000, besides some £10,000 worth of sausages disposed of at its various grocery stores. Both the co-operative society and the private butchers complain of increasing dearness and decreasing consumption of fresh meat, which consists exclusively of German produce. That the complaints of increasing dearness are not groundless may be seen from the following figures showing the wholesale prices of various qualities of beef and pork in Leipzig in each year from 1898 to 1906. The prices for each year represent the arithmetic mean of the 12 monthly market quotations for that year, and are stated in marks (= shillings) per 220 lbs. of dead meat :— Price in Shillings per 220 lbs. Dead Weight. 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. 1906. Oxen :— 1st Quality 2nd „ 3rd „ 4th „ Butts.'— 1st Quality 2nd „ 3rd „ Cows and Heifers : 1st Quality 2nd „ 3rd „ 4th „ 5th „ Pigs :— 1st Quality 2nd „ 138-8 128-5 119-3 110-7 119-6 112-3 105-2 1303 124-6 114-8 105-8 954 1226 1151 139-1 130- 1 121-4 113-8 124-0 116-9 109-9 131- 8 1263 116-9 107-4 96-9 106-6 980 140-1 Í30-9 121-4 111-9 1248 118-0 110-9. 1329 127-8 117-8 107-6 96-1 106-9 99-8 140-1 130-0 118-5 106-7 1235 115- 0 1058 132-1 126-7 113-8 101-8 89-4 123-5 116- 6 141-8 132-5 1222 111-1 1263 119-2 111-6 135-0 129- 0 118-5 107-8 95-6 130- 3 123-7 147-1 139- 6 130-8 120-3 133-8 128-2 120-7 140- 4 1341 1256 114-2 100-5 111-2 104-4 149-3 141- 8 131-5 120-0 137-4 129-8 118-9 142- 4 1353 125-1 111-7 97-0 107-3 100-2 159-2 158-7 138-3 121-9 143-1 134-2 1219 151-2 145-0 1329 116-8 98-9 136-7 130-0 167-5 158-1 143-7 127- 1 149- 4 140-6 128- 4 1580 150- 7 138-2 124-2 106-4 143-4 138-6

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