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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349 MÜLHAUSEN IN ALSACE. Mülhausen is the second town in size in the Reichsland, as the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, annexed by Germany in 1871, are called, and is an important centre of the cotton industry. It is emphatically a town of working people. The handicrafts which elsewhere occupy great prominence are here comparatively insignificant ; there is no large leisured class ; industry and, in a secondary degree, the wholesale handling of merchandise are the distinguishing marks of its economic life. The population in 1905 was 94,498. Owing partly to its geographical position, and also to its dependence upon a single industry, Mülhausen’s growth has for a long time been very equable. The movement of population since 1875 has been as follows :— Year of Census. Population. 1875 1880 1885 1890 1895 1900 1905 58,463 63,629 69,759 76,892 82,986 89,118 94,498 Increase. 5,166 6,130 7,133 6,094 6,132 5,380 Increase per cent. 8-8 9-6 10-2 7-9 74 6-0 The birth-rate and the death-rate have declined equally during the past twenty years. The average birth-rate during the period 1881-1885 was 36 per l’OOO of the population, and during the years 1901-1905 it was 28-5, showing a fall of 7 5 per 1,000 ; while the average death-rates at the same periods were 27 3 and 19*8 respectively, showing a decline of 7'5 per 1,000. These rates and the infant mortality rate have been as follows during the five years 1901-1905 :— Year. 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 Birth-rate per 1,000 of Population. 31-8 28-7 27- 6 28- 4 26-0 Death-rate per 1,000 of Population. 19-7 191 201 19- 9 20- 4 Infantile Mortality per 1,000 Births. 181 212 211 205 200 The deaths from tuberculosis in 1905 were equal to 2'74 per 1,000 of the population, comparing with 2'28 in 1904 and 2’0< in 1903. The general aspect of the streets of Mülhausen is unpretentious and in no way suggestive of a large town or in keeping with its industrial impoitance. There are spacious private gardens, still withheld from the builder’s hand, yet little public planting has been done The villa residences in which the well -to- do families live form a colony apart, lying beyond the railway and the canal to the South, R quarter from which factories are excluded. 01 the factories some

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