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mean of the prices of the different cuts of beef at October, 1906, is found to be 
8d., and that of the different cuts of pork about 8%d. per lb., and it is worthy of 
note that these prices are practically identical with the mean prices of beef and 
pork in Dantzig in 1906, as ascertained by the Prussian Government and cited 
further back on the authority of the Statistiches Jahrbuch für das Deutsche 
Reich. 
It may be stated in conclusion that the meat prices shown in the table are 
based on returns from private dealers only, and do not take into consideration 
the low prices at which meat officially condemned by the slaughterhouse 
authorities as inferior can be bought at the Municipal Meat-stall provided for the 
purpose of selling such meat, i.e., at the Freibank. Some 99 tons of meat 
forming parts of the carcases of animals found, on inspection, to be suffering 
from some disease, were sold at the Freibank in Dantzig in 1904, after 
precautions had been taken (by boiling or otherwise) to render the meat safe for 
human consumption. People who w T ere unable or unwilling to pay the usual 
shop prices were able to buy beef at the Freibank for 3d. to 4d. per lb., and pork 
at about 5\d. Where the beef has been boiled, a portion of the liquor is 
supplied with the meat.