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and all attics large enough to be used as bedrooms ; and this has been done in 
the tables of predominant rents given in this Report. The rents most usually 
paid in each town for each kind of accommodation are set out in the separate 
reports and also in Appendix II. (p. 496). From the data given in that 
Appendix, which are based on rent quotations obtained in this Enquiry for over 
107,000 working-class tenements, the following Table has been constructed to 
show the predominant range of rents for tenements of various sizes in Germany ' 
as a whole, excluding Berlin ; it should be stated that the rents include the 
charge for water, and in some causes small charges for chimney-sweeping and the 
removal of refuse, but they do not include any element of local taxation, except, 
of course, in so far as a landlord may have succeeded in shifting some part of 
his burdens—e.g., that of the land tax—on to the tenant by means of an increase 
in the rent charged. The tenant’s direct contributions to local taxation will be 
discussed later. 
Predominant Bents in Germany (excluding Berlin). 
Number of Rooms 
per Tenement. 
Two rooms 
Three rooms 
Four rooms 
No. of 
Towns 
to which 
the figures 
relate. 
Predominant 
Range of 
Weekly Rents. 
Number of Towns in which the Mean Rent is 
Within the 
limits of the 
Predominant 
Range. 
s. d. s. d. 
2 8to3 6 
3 6,,4 9 
4 3.,6 0 
Below the 
limits of the 
Predominant 
Range. 
A hove the 
limit of the 
Predominant 
Range. 
It will be seen from this Table that the three-roomed tenement was found 
to be an important type of working-class housing in every one of the towns 
investigated, that two-roomed tenements were of importance in two-thirds of 
the towns, and four-roomed tenements in rather less than one-half of the total 
number. A comparison of the rents given in this Table with those prevalent 
in Berlin for similar tenements of two or three rooms only—for working-class 
dwellings of a larger size occur in Berlin only in insignificant numbers — 
shows the extent to which rents in the capital exceed those charged elsewhere. 
Comparison of Bents in Berlin and in other German Towns. 
Berlin 
Other German Towns 
Predominant Range of Renta 
For Two Rooms. 
s. d. s. d. 
5 0 to 6 0 
2 8,,3 6 
For Three Rooms. 
d. s. 
0 to 9 
6 „ 4 
;, while the mean rent for two rooms in Berlin is os. 6d., in the other 
a whole it is only 3s. Id., and for three rooms in Berlin it is 8s. l^d., 
Thus, 
towns as a 
and elsewhere only 4s. 1 \d. It is noteworthy that Stuttgart is nearly as highly 
rented as Berlin, the mean rents for two and three rooms in that town being 
5s. 2d. and 8s. 1 \d. respectively. 
It did not appear possible to use the predominant range of rents of working- 
class tenements in Berlin directly as the basis for a comparison of the rent levels 
of the various towns, for rents of two-roomed and three-roomed tenements only 
were obtained for that city, inasmuch as the rents of four-roomed tenements there 
are beyond the means of the working-classes, whereas in several other towns four- 
roomed tenements constitute an important type of working-class housing. I or 
the reasons indicated in the Report on the towns of the United Kingdom (Cd. 
3864 (1908) p. xiv.), a comparison based on the rents of tenements of one type 
only—three-roomed in the present case—would be unsatisfactory, and accordingly 
the following method was adopted. The means of the predominant rents for 
each cîassTjf tenements in the whole of Germany, given in the above Table, 
were taken as the base, and the ratios of the mean predominant rents in each 
town to the mean predominant rents for all Germany were worked out ; the