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OSCHERSLEBEN. 
Trades. 
Principal Occupations. 
Weekly Hours 
of Labour. 
30s. 36s. 
Chocolate 
^ 60 
Brewing 
Firemen 
Labourers ... 
Foremen Maltsters 
f Brewers 
Coopers 
Engine-room Hands 
25s. to 27s. 
25s. „ 27s. 
25s. „ 26s. 
18s. „ 23s. 
18s. „ 19s. 
1 
y 60 to 66 
Bakery ... 
I Maltsters ... 
j First Bakers 
I Second Bakers 
25s. 2d. 
20s. 
21s. 
17s. 
Muni cipa l Employees 
Gas Works 
Roads 
Department. 
Í Foremen ... 
j Road Menders 
I Road Sweepers* 
r Foremen ... 
J Stokers 
i Fitters 
L Yard Labourers 
20s. 
14s. 
12s. 
23s. 
20s. 
60 
23s. to 24s. 2d. 
18s. 
Taking wages in Berlin as 100, the following are the wages index numbers 
for Oschersleben : For the building trades, 91 for skilled men and 67 for 
labourers ; for the engineering trades, 83 for skilled men and 89 for labourers ; 
and for the printing trades, 80. 
The great majority of working people at Oschersleben live in tenements 
consisting of a living room, a bedroom and a kitchen. The houses rarely exceed 
three storeys in height, and are built in rows with breaks only at long intervals 
for the passage of vehicles to and from the stables and workshops behind. The 
building plots are not so deep as is the case in large German towns, and con 
sequently back houses are somewhat rare, whilst side houses do not occur at all. 
A great number of the older houses are very primitive as to the accommodation 
provided, but slums, in the usually accepted sense of the term, are non-existent. 
The older houses are faced with plaster, which is only painted at long intervals, 
so that they look dingy and unattractive. Houses of the newer type have brick 
fronts. The same general plan is followed in structure and disposition of the 
dwellings in all the working-class houses whether old or modern. 
The double-house type is everywhere predominant and none of the tene 
ments have their own private entrance from the street. The house door opens 
into a lobby or corridor running through from the street to a small yard or 
court at the back. On each side of this corridor is a tenement on the ground 
floor. The stairs ascend from the corridor to the first floor, where there is 
another corridor corresponding to the one below. The basement corridor varies 
in width from 4^ to 6 feet, and is usually paved with brick in the older houses. 
Passing through the door at the end the visitor reaches a courtyard, where are 
to be found the pigstyes and potato cellars (one for each family) and also the 
closets, the latter of the cesspool type, and insufficient in number. Not 
infrequently the pigstye or the dung-heap is in close proximity to the windows 
of the tenements on the ground floor. As the municipality makes no provision 
for the emptying of cesspools the tenants have to attend to this duty themselves. 
Occasionally a pump is found in the court, but this is a luxury, and most 
of the tenants have to fetch their water from pumps at a distance. Dirty house 
water of every kind is poured into a channel in the court, which conveys it out 
the newer houses the courts are more spacious and measure at least 15 feet 
Housing and Rents. 
to the street gutters, whence it finds its way to the river Bode. In the case of