MAGDEBURG.

319

——
Metal  and  Engineering  Trades  :
Moulders
Fitters
Turners
Smiths
Patternmakers  ...
Coremakers
Planers  (skilled)
Angle-iron  smiths
Boilersmiths  (platers)
Rivetters  (by  hand)
„  (by  machine)
Semi-skilled  workers  at  machines  (planers,
turners,  &c.)
Labourers
Printing  Trade  :—  ,  -
Hand  compositors,  machine  minders  and
pressmen.
Machine  compositors  (newspapers)
»  „  (jobbing)
Sugar  Refining  :—
Workmen  at  centrifugals
„  „  pans  and  loafmaking  apparatus  4
„  „  cube  sugar  making
,,  ,,  mills  ...  ...  ...  «.  «
Sackcarriers,  warehousemen
Carmen  (2  horses)
Labourers

Weekly  Wages.

Weekly  Hours  of
Labour.

34s.  to  37s.
27s.  „  33s.
30s.  „  36s.
30s.  „  33s.
27s.  „  31s.
22s.  3d.
32s.
32s.
29s.  to  36s.
30s.  „  32s.
26s.  5d.
26s.
19s.  2d.  to  24s.

24s.  9d.
30s.  lid.
32s.  2d.

26s.  to  27s.
18s.  „  21s.
26s.
27s.
28s.  6d.  to  30s.  8d.
20s.  „  21s.
18s.

58  to  60

54
48
54

60  to  65

As  compared  with  the  level  of  wages  at  Berlin  (  =  100),  the  index  numbers
for  Magdeburg  are  as  follows  Building  trades,  skilled  men,  81,  labourers,  89  ;
engineering  trades,  skilled  men,  90,  labourers,  99  ;  printing  trades,  88.

Housing  and  Rents.

Among  German  municipal  statisticians  it  is  held  that  the  supply  of  houseroom
  in  a  town  may  be  regarded  as  adequate  so  long  as  the  number  of
unoccupied  dwellings  does  not  fall  below  a  proportion  of  3  per  cent,  of  all
dwellings.  According  to  this  standard  it  would  appear  that  the  supply  of
house  accommodation  in  Magdeburg  was  insufficient  from  1897  to  1902,  but
that  the  proper  relation  between  supply  and  demand  was  restored  in  1903,
and  has  been  maintained.  This  will  be  seen  from  the  following  statement
showing  the  number  and  percentage  of  unoccupied  dwellings  in  Magdeburg  at  a
certain  date  in  each  of  the  years  1894-1905  :—

Year.

1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905

Number  of  unoccupied  Dwellings.

Total.

3,522
2,866
2,031
1,077
617
467
417
600
1,238
1,773
2,210
1,879

Per  cent,  of  all
Dwellings.

6*93
553
390
205
1T6
086
0-77
109
220
3-08
3-74
3-10

Just  about  one-half  (940  in  a  total  of  1,879)  of  the  empty  dwellings
enumerated  in  1905  were  in  the  old  town,  and  therefore  of  relatively  inferior
accommodation,  as  regards  light  and  air.  More  than  half  (57  per  cent.)  of  the
unoccupied  dwellings  consisted  of  three  rooms  or  less,  but  it  does  not  appear