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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REMSCHEID. 421 The following were the wages of workpeople engaged on public works and undertakings at the same date : — Weekly Wages. Weekly (Tours of Labour. Roads and Streets :— Road-makers „ cleaners Gasworks f— Gas Stokers Labourers Waterworks :— Labourers Tramways (company) Drivers ... Conductors Electric Works and Lighting (company) Enginemen Stokers ... Erectors and Installers Fitters ... Labourers 22s. 18s. 80s. 21s. 6fi. 21s. 6d. 63 63 72 60 60 26s. 6d. to 31s. 2d * 18s. 6(7. „ 23s. Id.* 30s. 30s. 33s. 27s. 27s. 59^ to 63 59% „63 60 60 60 60 60 * Maximum wages reached in five years. Housing and Rents. Up to 1901 thestn all house of one story and an attic (of the type already described, and intended for one or two families) was predominant in Remscheid. The following tables show the conditions and movement between 1887 and 1900 (the latest year for which the figures are available) :— /.—Houses. Year. 1887 1893 1899-1900 Houses for One Family. Houses for Two Families. Houses for Three or more Families. No. 1,252 1,361 1,614 Per cent, of j all Houses. I 40 361 35 4 No. 797 903 1,117 Per cent, of all Houses. No. 255 1,077 23-9 j 1,505 244 j 1,834 Per cent, of all Houses. 34-5 40 402 Total. 3,126 3,769 4,565 II.—Housing and Lents. Year. Average No. of Persons per Dwelling. 1887 1899-1900 ... 5-1 4-7 Average No. of Rooms per Dwelling. 2-48 250 Average No. of Persons per Room. 2-00 1-88 Average Rent per Dwelling per Annum. £7 16s. £9 It will be noticed that between 1887 and 1900 the houses for one or two families decreased from 65-5 per cent, to 59*8 per cent, of the whole. Since 1900 the proportion of houses for three or more families is believed to have further increased, but actual figures are not available. The growth of the larger houses has followed upon the increase of dependent (i.e. factory) workmen, who take ordinary dwellings. It is noticeable that most of the small masters, and some of the independent workmen, have houses of their own, often subject to mortgage. The styles of building are two—" massive ” and " half-timber work.” The “ massive ” ‘buildings are those of modern erection and are of the tenement type,

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