110 
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