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“  Semmel,”  which  is  a  white  bread  with  currants,  and  is  said  to  be  baked
especially  for  Sundays.  The  usual  price  of  black  all-rye  bread  in  October,  1905/
was  4d.  to  od.  for  4  lb.,  of  grey  bread  4Jd.  to  5Jd.,  and  of  white  (wheat)
bread  5\d.  to  l\d.  for  the  same  weight.  The  varieties  of  cheese  mostly  eaten
ate  Limburg,  costing  5d.  to  5Jd.  per  lb.,  Dutch  costing  8fd.,  Swiss  costing  11  d./
and  Tilsit  costing  9^¡d.  Of  16,943  lb.  of  cheese  sold  in  1905-6  by  the
Co-operative  Society  named  above  8,400  lb.  were  of  Limburg  and  5,120  lb.
were  Dutch.  The  coffee  generally  bought  costs  lid.  per  lb.,  but  cheap
substitutes  are  mixed  with  it  to  a  large  extent.

Predominant  Prices  paid  by  the  Working  Classes  in  October,  1905,
and  September,  1907.

Commodity.

Predominant  Price.

October,  1905.

September,  1907.

Coffee
Sugar  :—
Loaf  ...  ...
White  granulated
Bacon  :—
~Fat  ...
Streaky
Eggs,  Country.
Cheese  :—
Dutch
Limburg
Swiss...
Tilsit...
Butter  ...
Margarine
Potatoes
Flour  :—
Wheaten
Rye  ...
Bread  :—
White
Black
Grey  ...
Milk  ...
Coal
Paraffin...

per  lb.

per  Is.
per  lb.

per  7  lb.*

per  1  lb.

per  quart
per  cwt.
per  gallon

lid.
2&d.
2\d.,  2\d.

8|d.  to  9§d.
‘  ‘  „  lid.
12

9§d

8§d.
5d.  to  51d.
lid.“
9¿d.
Is.  l|d.
8|d.
2\d.  to  2fd.
9\d,  „  lOfd.
lOd.
5fd.  to  7fd.
4d.  „  5d.
,  ,,  5^d.
2|d.  —
9|d.  to  lid.
9fd.  „  9Jd.

#d:

lid.
2  id.
2|d.
8§d.
8|d.  to  9|d.
8,,  9
8#
5^d.
lid.  to  Is.
9\d.
Is.  lfd.  to  Is.  2|d.
8#d.
2\d  to  2|d.
11  \d.  to  Is.  O^d.
Is.  Ofd.
71d.
4fd.  to  5¿d.
6d.  „  7d.
2|d.
9#d.  to  Is.  O^d.
*  -  lid.

*  Sold  in  quantities  of  110  lb.

Mmf.  '/  ï
The  following  is  a  record  of  the  animals  killed  at  the  municipal  slaughterhouse ­
  during  the  years  1904  and  1905  :  —

1904.

Cattle  ...
Pigs  ...
Calves...
Sheep  ...
Horses

14,708
51,151
12,745
3,654
805

1905.

16,436
40,888
13,176
4,553
916

The  working  classes  eat  for  the  most  part  beef,  pork,  and  bacon,  with
dusage  of  which  these  kinds  of  meat  are  the  principal  ingredients.  Returns
>f  weekly  expenditure  on  meat  made  to  the  Department  in  1907  by’  273  households, ­
  representing  1,341  persons,  showed  a  consumption  of  about  l^  lb.  per  head,
iqual  to  92#  lb.  per  annum.  Of  this  39  per  cent,  was  pork  and  bacon,  28  per
:ent.  beef  and  25  per  cent,  sausage  ;  mutton  was  only  a  little  over  1  per  cent.
Chis  consumption  compares  with  78'92  lb.  per  head  per  annum  shown  by
imilar  working-class  returns  in  the  neighbouring  colliery  town  of  Bochum  and
*3'29  lb.  shown  in  Essen.

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