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BREMEN.
Predominant Prices paid by the Working Classes in October, 1905,
and April, 1907.
Predominant Price.
Commodity.
Coffee
Sugar :—
Loaf ... ...
White granulated
Bacon : —
Fat
Streaky
Egge, Foreign
Cheese :—
Dutch
Limburg
Swiss ...
Butter
Margarine
Potatoes
Flour :—
Wheat...
Rye ...
Bread :—
Black ...
Grey ...
Milk
Coal
Coke
Paraffin Oil
per lb,
per Is.
per lb.
»
per 7 lbs.
per 4 lbs.
»
per quart,
per cwt.
per gallon
October, 1905.
lid.
2#
2#
8fd. to 9|d.
8fd. to 9|d.
14
8f d.
6&d.
9f<7. to Is. Id.
Is. id.
6W. to 8|d.
2\d.
Is. Ifd.
9\d. to KM.
4#
5\d.
2#d.
Is. 4id.*
9|d. to 10\d.
10^6?.
April, 1907.
11 d.
2\d.
8id
8^(7.
17
lid.
6W.
lid.
Is. id.
6$e?. to 8M
2^.
Is.
lid.
9£d. to 10c?.
4#
6^.
2| d.
Is. 4 id.*
10W. to 11W.
10 \d.
* Coal is frequently also sold by the “ Eimer ” of about .15 lb. ; in such quantities the
price is about Is. 8\d.
Meat.
The consumption of meat per head shown by the annual returns of the
public abattoir is relatively high. The Municipal Statistical Office has for
some years kept a record of the meat consumption per head of the population,
based on the amount of meat which passes through the public and private
abattoirs and the amount imported. Since 1901, however, the estimate has not
included imported meat, so that the figures for the years 1902-1905 are not
comparable with those for earlier years.
Since 1901 the consumption, less meat imported, has been as follows :—
1902.
1903.
1904.
1905.
1906.
Beef
Pork
Veal
Mutton
Horse
Lbs.
3927
4913
15-27
4*05
6 75
Total
114-47
Lbs.
39 64
56 21
13-81
3 81
5 57
119-06
* Including goat.
Lbs.
3927
5630
12-61
3-61
5-61
117-39
Lbs.
40 52
55 84
12 83
3 65*
5-98
119-00
Lbs.
39-66
55 26
11-04
3-41
5T7
114-54
It will be seen that nearly half the meat consumed is pork, while the
consumption of beef is about a third of the whole. Here, as elsewhere in
Germany, mutton is but little esteemed. An estimate based solely upon returns
of working-class meat consumption obtained for this enquiry from 204 households
containing 920 persons, showed an average weekly consumption of 30^ ounces,
or at the rate of 99^ lb. per year. Of this 35 per cent, was pork and bacon,
29 per cent, was sausage, and 26 per cent, beef ; mutton amounted to only
1 per cent
