DRESDEN. 
205 
illustrated by returns from 191 workmen’s families in Dresden, collected for 
the Board of Trade during the latter half of 1906 through the secretaries of 
various local trade unions, and amounted to only 20§ ounces per week, which 
would be about 67 lbs. per year. Of this amount 38 per cent, was beef, 
26 per cent, pork and bacon, and 23 per cent, sausage. Were it possible to 
ascertain how much of this weekly meat supply was absorbed by the father of 
the family it would probably be found that very little remained for the wife 
and children. Indeed, statements made to the writer by members of trade 
unions and others acquainted with working-class ways of living point to the 
conclusion that the only member of the family who has meat regularly is 
the father' 1 . 
Appended is a statement of the prices of various joints of meat usually 
paid by the working classes in October, 1905, and in June, 1906 :— 
Predominant Price per lb. 
Description of Cut. 
Beef :— 
Ribs ... ... 
Silverside 
m ■ j with bone 
( without bone 
Steak ... ... 
Flank 
Mutton :— 
Leg ... ... 
Shoulder 
Breast 
Neck 
Chops (trimmed) 
Veal :— 
Hindquarter 
Without “bon 
Shin 
Loin ... ... 
Pork :— 
Leg ... ... 
Foreloin ... 
Belly 
Spare Rib 
Chops 
October, 1905. 
7|f?. 
8ft?. to llf?. 
8§d. 
9# 
Is. If?, to Is. 3Ir?. 
7# 
9|f?. to Ilf?. 
9# 
7|í?. to 8|f?. 
8# 
lit?. 
9|f?. to Ilf?. 
8|í?. to 9|f?. 
Ilf?, to Is. le?. 
6&f?. 
9|f?. to Ilf?. 
9ff?. to Ilf?. 
9 W. to Ilf?. 
8# 
Ilf?, to Is. If?. 
June, 1906. 
7%f?. 
8fí?. to Ilf?. 
8# 
92f7. 
Is. If?, to Is. 3\d. 
7§f?. 
9|f?. to llf?. 
9|f?. 
7|í?. to 8|f? 
8# 
llf?. 
9|f?. to llf?. 
8fí?. to 9|f?. 
llf?. to ls. lf?. 
6|f?. 
9|í?. to llf?. 
llf?. to ls. 
llf?. to ls. 
9# 
Is. to ls. 2ff?. 
Here, again, it is to be borne in mind that the prices are those charged for 
those (more or less inferior) qualities of meat which are most generally bought 
by the working classes. It will be noticed that there were practically no changes 
in the prices of beef, mutton and veal, but the price of pork rose by a little 
more than Id. per lb. 
Representing predominant prices at Berlin by 100, the corresponding 
figures for Dresden are—for meat, 113 ; for other food, 103 ; foi coal, 8 , and 
for all commodities, 103. The index number for rent and pnces combined 
is 93.