STASSFURT. 
447 
The prices of bread and flour were markedly higher in May, 1907, at the 
time of the investigator’s visit, than in October, 1905, but the prices of other 
groceries, &c., show little change. 
Predominant Prices paid by the Working Classes in October, 1905, and 
May, 1907. 
Commodity. 
Coffee ... 
Sugar :— 
Loaf 
White Granulated 
Bacon :— 
Fat ... 
Streaky 
Eggs 
Cheese :— 
Country Cheese 
Limburg 
Butter :— 
Fresh 
Margarine ... 
Potatoes 
Flour :— 
Wheat 
Bread, Rye (Grey) 
Milk 
Lignite Briquettes 
Coke 
Paraffin Oil, American 
Predominant Price. 
per lb 
per Is. 
per lb. 
per 7 lbs 
per 4 lbs 
per qt. 
per cwt. 
per gal. 
October, 1905. 
lid. 
2# 
2^d. 
8|d. to 9f<7. 
9M „ lid 
14 
4d to 5 \d. 
6&d 
Is. 2id. to Is. 2|d 
8# 
2§d to 3fd 
Is. 0| d „ Is. lfd 
4# 
2 \d. 
8fd to 9|d 
Is. 
9# 
May, 1907. 
lid 
2# 
24d 
8|d to 9|d 
9# „ lid 
16 
4d to 5 Id 
6W. ~ 
Is. 21d to Is. 2|d 
8§d 
2^d to 3# 
Is. lfd to Is. 3\d. 
5d to 5\d. 
2^d 
9^d to 10^d 
Is. 
9|d 
Meat. 
Stas shirt possesses a municipal abattoir where all animals intended for 
public consumption must be slaughtered after undergoing examination by the 
inspectors. Almost all the cattle killed there comes from the province of 
Prussian .Saxony. The following is a statement of the animals slaughtered in 
1905 : —Oxen 121, bullocks 319, heifers 451, young heifers 128, calves 815, 
pigs 5,677, sheep 940, horses 195, goats 6. 
The working classes eat more pork than any other kind of meat, not 
merely as a matter of taste, but because a large proportion of working men 
keep pigs for home consumption. Like larger towns Stassfurt has its “ Freibank ” 
or municipal meat stall at which meat condemned as inferior by the inspectors 
is sold at a reduced rate. This rate is as a rule two-thirds of the market price 
of good meat when it is sold raw, and one-half of this pi ice 5\hen it is first 
boiled. Meat is certified and sold as inferior under two conditions : (a) when 
the inspector decides that in consequence of disease in any pai t or organ the 
remainder of the meat has been so affected that it is only fit foi consumption 
after being sterilised, in which event it must first be boiled before being sold ; 
(b) if sterilising is not necessary, and yet the meat affected is very poor in 
quality, it may be sold in its raw state but only at the " Freibank.” Where 
meat is thus sold the owners are compensated from an insurance fund, to which 
they are compelled to contribute. When meat is to be sold at the " Freibank ” 
a notice is put in the local press giving the date and hour of sale, and there is 
always a large demand. Horseflesh is sold at several shops in the town, and 
the prices are as follows :—Leg from 4^d. to ò^d. per lb., sirloin 5^d. to 
6|d. per lb., hackflesh 4\d. to 5\d. per lb., sausage l%d. to 9,/. per lb. 
As at Oschersleben the prices of beef, mutton, and veal were distinctly 
higher in May, 1907, than in October, 1905, while the price of pork had fallen 
in the interval.