KEMSCHEID.

427

The  following  Table  may  be  appended  showing  the  prices  of  various  kinds
of  meat  as  recorded  by  a  prominent  wholesale  and  retail  tradesman  at  different
dates  :—
Retail  prices  of  meat  per  lb.

Beef  :—
Bibs...  ...  ...
Silverside
„  without  bone
Fillet  or  roast  beef
Mutton  :—
Hind-quarter
Breast  and  flank
Back
Cutlets
Veal  :—
Hind-quarter
Breast  and  flank
Pork  :—
Le§*  •  •  •  »  #  *
Belly  and  flank
Cutlets
Head  and  feet

1892.

6d.  to  6^d.
6%d.
8#
9\d.  to  11c?.

41c?.  to  5|c?.
8#
8f  d.  to  11c?.
6c?.  „  6|c?.
T ò\d.  ,,  6c?.
81c?.
Id.  to  7|c?.
7c?.  ,,  i\d.
34c?.  ,,  41c?.

February,  1906.

7c?.
7#c?.
8#
8|c?.  to  11c?.
11c?.
Id.
9#c?.
Is.  7|c?.
8|c?.  to  9fc7.
6^c?.  „  Id.
8|c?.
8#
8#c?.
2fc?.  to  4-]c?.

September,  1907.

8f  d.
91c?.
11c?.
9|c?.  to  Is.  3fc?.
11c?.
Id.
9§c?.
Is.  7|c?.
9|c?.  to  lO^c?.
S^c?.  ,,  91c?.
101c?.
9fc?.  .
9^c?.
3fc?.  to  61c?.

Prices  of  food  are  distinctly  high  in  Remscheid.  Representing  the  level  of
prices  at  Berlin  by  100,  the  index  number  for  meat  prices  at  Remscheid  is  107,
and  for  other  food  prices  111.  Combining  these  two  figures  with  that  for  coal,
which  is  76,  a  general  prices  index  number  of  105  is  obtained.  The  index
number  for  rent  and  prices  combined  is  95,  as  compared  with  100  for  Berlin.

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