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average of the ratios gave an index number for the town compared with the 
predominant level of the towns investigated. The resultant index number for 
Berlin was then taken as a basis and the index numbers for the other towns 
adjusted accordingly. 
In the following Table the index numbers so calculated are given, showing 
the relative level of rents in each of the German towns as compared with Berlin, 
the predominant rents in the capital being taken as the base ( = 100). 
Rent Index Numbers in Descending Order. 
Town. 
Berlin 
Stuttgart 
Düsseldorf .. 
Dortmund .. 
Aschaffenburg 
Hamburg 
Mannheim 
Königsberg 
Munich 
Essen 
Solingen 
Index 
No. 
100 
97 
79 
68 
67 
66 
64 
62 
63 
62 
61 
Town. 
Bochum 
Elberfeld 
Barmen 
Remscheid 
Breslau 
Dresden 
Nuremberg 
Aachen 
Crefeld 
Bremen 
Plauen 
Index 
No. 
57 
57 
57 
56 
56 
54 
53 
53 
52 
52 
52 
Town. 
Leipzig 
Dantzig 
Mülhausen 
Königshütte 
Stettin 
Magdeburg 
Chemnitz 
Zwickau 
Brunswick 
Stassfurt 
Oschersleben 
Index 
No. 
51 
49 
48 
47 
46 
43 
40 
38 
37 
33 
28 
It will be seen that, as already indicated, there is little difference between 
the rent levels of Berlin and Stuttgart. Düsseldorf is the next highest-rented 
town, but the rents there are 20 per cent, lower than in Berlin and Stuttgart. 
In Dortmund they are 32 per cent, lower than in Berlin, and so the scale 
descends to Brunswick, a large town with rents 63 per cent, lower than in 
Berlin, and to Stassfurt and Oschersleben, where the rents are respectively only 
about one-third and one-quarter of those prevalent in the capital. The index 
numbers for eight of the 32 towns lie between 60 and 70, and for 12 towns 
between 50 and 60 ; for two towns they are above 70, and in 10 cases below 50. 
In the next Table the towns are grouped according to certain geographical 
districts, which are indicated on the map given as a frontispiece to this volume. 
Two of these groups are very small, appearing to consist of only two towns each ; 
but with the North Sea Ports of Hamburg and Bremen the large town of 
Altona is included, since it is scarcely separable—from the economic point of 
view—-from Hamburg, and the Silesian group is representative, since it 
includes Breslau, the second largest city of Prussia, and Königshütte, which, as 
already pointed out, is the centre of an extensive district of almost identical 
character. The towns in each group are shown in Table A, appended to this 
General Report. 
Rent Index Numbers for Geographical Groups. 
Geographical Group. 
Mean Rent Index 
N umber. 
Berlin 
Central Germany 
Rhineland-Westphalia :— 
(a) Textile Towns 
(b) Hardware Towns 
South Germany 
Saxony 
Silesia 
Baltic Ports 
North Sea Ports 
ISo. of Towns 
100 
35 
55 
61 
65 
47 
52 
52 
59