HAMBURG. 
271 
The following is a summary of the prices at October, 1905, and at the 
time of the investigator’s visit in April, 1907 :— 
Predominant Prices paid by the Working Classes in October, 1905, and 
April, 1907. 
Commodity. 
Predominant Price. 
October, 1905. 
April, 1907. 
Coffee ... 
Sugar :— 
Loaf ... ... 
White Granulated 
Bacon :— 
Fat ... 
Streaky 
Eggs ... 
Cheese :— 
Dutch 
Limburg 
Swiss 
Butter ... 
Margarine 
Potatoes 
Flour :— 
Wheat 
Rye ... 
Bread :— 
Grey ... 
Black 
Milk 
Coal 
Coke 
Paraffin Oil 
per lb. 
per Is. 
per lb. 
per 7 lb. 
per 4 lb. 
per quart 
per cwt. 
per gallon 
9fd. 
2 )jd. 
2\d. 
9|d. to lid. 
11 „ 17 
9fd. „ lid. 
6d. 
lid. to Is. Id. 
Is. to Is. Id. 
5Id. to 6id. 
2# 
lOfd. 
9jd. 
5d. to 5&d. 
4d. „ 4fd. 
2^d. 
llfd. to Is. Ofd. 
Is. Old. to Is. l^d. 
8fd. „ 8fd. 
lid. 
2 \d. 
21d. 
8i d. to 8Id, 
8^d. 
9#d. 
16 
lid. 
6d. 
lid. to Is. Id. 
Is. Id. 
6 Id. 
Í&. 
10fd. to Is. lfd. 
lOd. to 10§d. 
to 6d. 
5d. 
2#d. 
Is. l^d. to Is. 
Is. 0¿d. 
3d. 
Is. l-gd. 
8jd. „ 8fd. 
Meat. 
Owing to its proximity to important grazing districts Hamburg is well 
supplied with meat. The bulk of the cattle required for food come from 
Schleswig-Holstein and the neighbourhood of Hamburg and from Denmark, 
but a large number of animals come also from Mecklenburg and the Prussian 
provinces of Hanover and Posen. The mutton chiefly comes from Schleswig- 
Holstein and the district around Hamburg, but also from Brunswick and the 
provinces of Hanover and Saxony. Most of the pork comes from Schleswig- 
Holstein and the surroundings, but a quantity also from Hanover and Mecklen 
burg, and the same applies to the veal. A large quantity of dead meat still 
comes from Denmark and England, the former country sending in 1906 26,460 
cattle, 7,204 calves, and 651 sheep, and the latter sending 5,127 cattle and 46 
pigs. Holland sent 477 cattle, 145 calves, and 62 pigs. A large and increasing 
number of horses are slaughtered for human food, the majority coming from 
the neighbourhood, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, and Hanover ; none now 
come from England. 
The following is a statement of all animals slaughtered at the abattoir, and 
all carcases received there from 1901 to 1906 :— 
Cattle. 
Calves. 
Pigs. 
Sheep. 
Horses. 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 
1905 
1906 
65,933 
67,400 
72,923 
83,999 
98,699 
94,224 
62,096 
63,489 
60,405 
58,383 
62,947 
61,707 
243,116 
228,279 
282,886 
334,659 
294,019 
283,600 
84,146 
85,292 
84,863 
84,580 
89,442 
89,274 
3,904 
4,519 
4,595 
4,436 
5,360 
5,502 
From these figures it is not possible, however, to determine the yearly 
meat consumption per head of the population, for much of the meat which 
passes through the Hamburg abattoir goes to Altona and Wandsbeck, and on 
the other hand the latter towns send meat to Hamburg. As regards the