HAMBURG.
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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 Mecklenburg,
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
