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(a) Ratios of the quantities of certain articles of food consumed hy workmen's
families in Germany, possessing certain incomes, to the quantities of the same
articles consumed by working men's families in the United Kingdom with
corresponding incomes.
(Quantities in U.K. = 100.)
Limits of Weekly Income.
Bread and flour
Meat and fish*
Eggs
Fresh milk ...
Cheese
Animal tatst
Potatoes
Sugar
25s. and
under 30s.
30s. and
: under 35s.
84
88
106
159
66
113
151
42
89
90
90
130
78
115
148
41
35s. and
under 40s.
99
95
97
140
78
120
155
41
* Including an allowance for weight of fish in Germany and for weight of other meat
and fish in the United Kingdom. See explanation below,
t Butter, margarine, lard, suet, and dripping.
(6) Ratios of the amounts spent on certain articles of food consumed by workmen's
families in Germany, possessing certain incomes, to the amounts spent
on the same articles by working men's families in the United Kingdom with
corresponding incomes.
(Expenditure in the U.K. = 100.)
Limits of Weekly Income.
Bread and flour
Meat and fish
Eggs ...
Fresh milk ...
Cheese
Animal fatsf
Potatoes
Vegetables and fruit
Farinaceous foods (other than
bread and flour).
Tea, coffee, cocoa, &c.
Sugar ... ... ... ...
25s. and
under 30s.
30s. and
under 35s.
87
103
88
132
68
115
105
114
85
66
47
92
100
77
110
75
112
100
93
71
65
47
35s. and
under 40s.
102
105
79
118
88
117
115
87
83
67
47
t Butter, margarine, lard, suet, and dripping.
The quantities of bread and flour consumed in Germany are from 10 to
16 per cent, less in Germany than in England in the case of the families wdth
incomes of 25s. hut under 30s., and of 30s. but under 35s., though for the
families with incomes of 35s. to 40s. the consumption is much the same.
Owing to the price of grey bread in Germany being higher than that ot white
bread in England, the expenditure of families with the higher incomes on
bread and flour is even slightly higher in Germany than in England.
As regards meat and fish, the German expenditure exceeds the English by
less than 1 per cent, in the case of the families with incomes of 30 to 35 shillings,
and in the lower and higher income classes the excess is only 3 to 5 per cent.
A comparison of quantities offers some difficulty, for practically all the meat is
bought by weight in Germany, while in England some 18 per cent, of the money
spent on meat and fish is expended on “ meat not bought by weight," such as
the miscellaneous items mentioned on the last page. In the above Table (a) a
proportionate allowance has been made for the weight of " other meat and fish "
in the United Kingdom budgets, on the basis of the expenditure, and a similar
small allowance for the consumption of fish in Germany. The results are no
doubt very rough, but probably sufficiently accurate for present purposes ; and
it appears that the weight of meat consumed in Germany is about 12 per cent.
