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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MUNICH. 377 in another part of the town, the height of which shall not exceed two ordinary stories and an attic story, and its ambition is to offer to the working classes on the outskirts single-family houses of the English pattern. RETAIL PRICES. Groceries and other Commodities. Munich is well supplied with food stuffs of every kind. It draws consider able supplies of agricultural produce from the grazing and arable districts of Bavaria, and its contiguity to Austria and Switzerland attracts to it the produce of these countries in large quantities. For the sale of most articles of food, among them meat, fish, fowl and game, vegetables, fruit, and country produce generally, there are open or closed markets, held under municipal management, and upon every article exposed for sale octroi is still levied as in many other South German towns. The amount of the duty on flour, meat, game and beer was, in 1906, 45. 2d. per head of the population. Yet, in spite of its ample supplies, Munich is a comparatively dear town to live in. dSTot many years ago its reputation was the opposite, and residents with experience of Vienna, Dresden, and Berlin praised the Bavarian capital as a town in which reasonable households might count on reasonable food bills. A comparison of food prices shows that during the whole of the past decade there has been a steady upward tendency, to which rye bread alone has not been subject. For the rest, the prices of meat of every kind, of potatoes, butter, and other agricultural produce, even of coffee, have all increased, and the same thing holds good of coal and fuel generally. The following list of market and retail traders’ prices, which have been recorded for a number of years by the Municipal Statistical Office, affords an interesting comparison :— Commodity. Ox flesh No. 1 „ „ No. 2 Cow „ No. 1 ,, 5, N o. 2 .. . Veal Mutton No. 1 ., No. 2 Pork Coffee Butter Wheaten flour No. 1 ,, No. 2 ,, „ No. 3 Rye flour ... Bread No. 1 „ No. 2 Potatoes Coal ... ... ... Lignite Mean Retail Prices in per lb. 99 99 ’9 99 91 99 per 7 lb. 99 99 99 per 4 lb. >5 per cwt. 1896. s. d. 0 7-6 0 72 0 7*0 0 60 0 69 0 52 0 7-2 1 0*2 1 33 1 2-5 1 1-7 1 1 0 7 0 6-1 3 PI 1 22 1 0-8 1900. s. d. 0 7-6 0 7-2 0 7-0 0 65 0 7-6 0 6-4 0 7-4 0 10-4 0 11-7 1 11 1 5-6 1 4 1 2-5 1 1 0 7-4 0 6-5 3 0-8 1 3-6 1 32 1903. s. d. 0 8# 0 7-6 0 72 0 6-7 0 7-0 0 7-7 0 7-1 0 8-2 0 9-8 0 10-9 1 11 1 5-6 1 4 1 2-5 1 1 0 7 0 61 3 0-9 1 4-5 1 3-3 1906, s. d. 0 8-8 0 84 0 7-7 0 7-4 0 8-1 0 7-9 0 7-1 0 9-1 0 10-9 1 11 1 11 1 5-6 1 4 1 2-5 1 1 0 7 0 6-1 3 33 1 4-5 1 28 Although the wages of the working classes have increased in the meantime, Munich’s food prices are not favourable to a high standard of life, and it is probable that the cost of living explains in some measure the inadequate housing accommodation with which the great mass of the people are satisfied. Passing along the streets and visiting the houses of the working classes one is struck by the importance which is attached to vegetables as an article of food. These vegetables are sold in a multitude of small shops scattered throughout the poorer streets, but the great bulk is retailed by market women who bring the produce of the country districts to town and dispose of it in the open markets set apart for the purpose. Another striking feature of the streets in working- class quarters is the abundance of milk shops. These shops are of the simplest kind, and are generally carried on as an auxiliary occupation by women whose husbands are otherwise employed. 3 B 29088

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