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The trade in horse flesh is considerable and increases. It is in the hands of 
three special butchers, one of whom also keeps a restaurant in which horse meat 
only is sold, a liberal portion costing 3d. with potatoes ; two animals are 
consumed weekly in this way. The usual price of horseflesh is 4\d. to 5J d. per lb., 
with 6¿d. for fillet. Chopped meat for "beef steak” and for eating raw costs 
5^d. } and sausage 4\d. to 6jd. per lb., the latter quality having an addition of 
pork. Buyers commonly take from 2 to 3 lb. at once, according to the size of 
the family, but twice the quantity at the week end. The horses are all killed 
at the public abattoir and come from the mines and from the agricultural 
districts. A well regulated horse butcher’s shop is quite as attractive in fittings 
is one for the sale of beef or pork, and its marble slabs and tiled walls are no less 
clean, though the strong and pungent odour that is apt to pervade the place 
may unfavourably prejudice a first acquaintance. 
Prices of food at Bochum are at about the same general level as in Berlin, 
the index number for groceries and dairy produce being 102, and for meat 103, 
prices at Berlin being represented by 100. Coal is, of course, very much 
cheaper in Bochum than in Berlin, the index number here being 58, and this 
low figure has the effect of reducing the general prices index number to 96. 
Dortmund, Breslau and Königshütte are the only towns covered by this 
investigation in which the prices index number is as low as or lower than 96. 
The index number for rents and prices combined is 88. * 
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