MAGDEBURG. 
319 
—— 
Metal and Engineering Trades : 
Moulders 
Fitters 
Turners 
Smiths 
Patternmakers ... 
Coremakers 
Planers (skilled) 
Angle-iron smiths 
Boilersmiths (platers) 
Rivetters (by hand) 
„ (by machine) 
Semi-skilled workers at machines (planers, 
turners, &c.) 
Labourers 
Printing Trade :— , - 
Hand compositors, machine minders and 
pressmen. 
Machine compositors (newspapers) 
» „ (jobbing) 
Sugar Refining :— 
Workmen at centrifugals 
„ „ pans and loafmaking apparatus 4 
„ „ cube sugar making 
,, ,, mills ... ... ... «. « 
Sackcarriers, warehousemen 
Carmen (2 horses) 
Labourers 
Weekly Wages. 
Weekly Hours of 
Labour. 
34s. to 37s. 
27s. „ 33s. 
30s. „ 36s. 
30s. „ 33s. 
27s. „ 31s. 
22s. 3d. 
32s. 
32s. 
29s. to 36s. 
30s. „ 32s. 
26s. 5d. 
26s. 
19s. 2d. to 24s. 
24s. 9d. 
30s. lid. 
32s. 2d. 
26s. to 27s. 
18s. „ 21s. 
26s. 
27s. 
28s. 6d. to 30s. 8d. 
20s. „ 21s. 
18s. 
58 to 60 
54 
48 
54 
60 to 65 
As compared with the level of wages at Berlin ( = 100), the index numbers 
for Magdeburg are as follows Building trades, skilled men, 81, labourers, 89 ; 
engineering trades, skilled men, 90, labourers, 99 ; printing trades, 88. 
Housing and Rents. 
Among German municipal statisticians it is held that the supply of house- 
room in a town may be regarded as adequate so long as the number of 
unoccupied dwellings does not fall below a proportion of 3 per cent, of all 
dwellings. According to this standard it would appear that the supply of 
house accommodation in Magdeburg was insufficient from 1897 to 1902, but 
that the proper relation between supply and demand was restored in 1903, 
and has been maintained. This will be seen from the following statement 
showing the number and percentage of unoccupied dwellings in Magdeburg at a 
certain date in each of the years 1894-1905 :— 
Year. 
1894 
1895 
1896 
1897 
1898 
1899 
1900 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 
1905 
Number of unoccupied Dwellings. 
Total. 
3,522 
2,866 
2,031 
1,077 
617 
467 
417 
600 
1,238 
1,773 
2,210 
1,879 
Per cent, of all 
Dwellings. 
6*93 
553 
390 
205 
1T6 
086 
0-77 
109 
220 
3-08 
3-74 
3-10 
Just about one-half (940 in a total of 1,879) of the empty dwellings 
enumerated in 1905 were in the old town, and therefore of relatively inferior 
accommodation, as regards light and air. More than half (57 per cent.) of the 
unoccupied dwellings consisted of three rooms or less, but it does not appear