KÖNIGSHÜTTE. 
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In the reports on most of the other towns investigated, it has been possible 
to compare the average meat consumption per head of the working-class 
population with that of the whole population of the town, and it has generally 
appeared that among the former only about half as much meat was eaten as among 
the latter. This comparison cannot be made for Königshütte owing to the 
incompleteness of the data as to net imports of dead meat for local consumption. 
If the comparison were possible it would probably show the two figures to be 
practically identical, for almost the whole of the population of the town is 
working-class. 
Prices, like rent and wages, are very low in Königshütte, the general level 
of prices of meat, of other food and of coal being lower than in any other of the 
towns investigated. Taking prices in Berlin as 100, the index number for the 
prices of meat in Königshütte is 94 ; for other food, 90 ; for coal, 51 ; and for 
all commodities, 86, as compared with 95 in Breslau, the town having the next 
lowest index numbers. Combining this index number with that for rent, a 
result of 78 is obtained, which would indicate that the cost of living in 
Königshütte is very much lower than in any other towns included in the 
present inquiry. 
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