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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STUTTGART. 461 extent that Prussia or Saxony is. While Saxony with an area of 5,787 square miles had in 1905 a population of 4,508,601, three of its towns having more than 200,000 inhabitants and ten others between 20,000 and 100,000, Wurtemberg with an area of 7,536 square miles had a population in 1905 of only 2,302,179, and while only one of its towns exceeded 200,000, only seven other towns exceeded 20,000, and all these fell below 60,000. In 1904 only 18 Wurtemberg towns had a factory population {Le., “ industrial workpeople ” liable to factory inspection) exceeding 2,000, and the second in size after Stuttgart, with its 23,339 “ industrial workpeople,” was Göppingen with only 7,976. Wurtemberg, in fact, is still predominantly an agricultural country ; while increasing attention is being given to industry, and remarkable zeal is being shown in the cause of technical instruction, the economic centre of gravity must be sought not in its factories and workshops but in its corn lands, farmsteads, and vineyards. Much has been done by the municipal authority of Stuttgart during late years for the convenience and health of the people, as by the improvement of the system of sewerage and the water supply, the more careful supervision of dwellings, both during and after erection, and the extension of the tramway system to the suburbs, thus relieving congestion within the older districts, and the town had in 1906 the comparatively low death-rate of 16 6 per 1,000, comparing with 17"6 per 1,000 in 1905. The rate for Wurtemberg in 1905 was 20*6 per 1,000. The birth-rate in 1906 was 28'1 per 1,000, comparing with 28'4 in 1905, when the rate for the whole kingdom was 33T. The deaths of children under one year of age numbered 186 per 1,000 births in 1906 and 200 in 1905. There is great disparity between the rates of infant mortality in different parts of the municipal area. Thus, in 1905, the rates ranged from 183 deaths per 1,000 births in Untertürkheim and 207 in Cannstatt, to 304 in Ostheim and 347 in Wangen. Of the births in 1905 13*6 per cent, were illegitimate (against 8*6 in 1905 for the whole of Wurtemberg), though a substantial deduction should here be made on account of the existence in Stuttgart of a large lying-in home which serves a wide area. The deaths from tuberculosis in the same year were equal to a rate of 2'29 per 1,000 of population. The following Table shows the birth and death-rates and the infantile mortality rates for a period of seven years (still-born infants excluded) :— Year. 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 Birth-rate per 1,000 of population. 29- 1 30- 0 29 3 28-6 28-5 28-4 28T Death-rate per 1,000 of population. 19-6 17 8 17 7 17-3 17-2 17-6 16-6 Infantile mortality per 1,000 births. 231 197 208 202 193 200 186 Occupations, Wages and Hours of Labour. Of an estimated population of about 200,000 in 1904—for 34,625 inhabitants were added by a single extension of the municipal area in April of the following year—23,339 persons were engaged in 1,030 industrial under takings which brought them under factory inspection. This figure is far from commensurate with the entire industrial population, however, for it is chiefly those concerns which employ “elemental powei (steam, water, wind, gas, air, electricity, &c.) that come under inspection, yet it shows that Stuttgart is not a centre of great industries. The industries in the above enumeration

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