STUTTGART. 
479 
The investigation extended to 39 townships, and the expenditure on these 
articles of food was estimated to be £4 7 s. 2d: (15*4 per cent.) per family more 
in 1906 than in 1901-1904. The advance in prices would appear to have 
affected Stuttgart more particularly in regard to meat. The Statistical Bureau 
has also published comparative retail prices of meat, obtained from over 
50 towns, during the years 1901-1906, and the following fluctuations were 
shown by those for Stuttgart, which were throughout higher than the average 
prices for the whole country :— 
Retail Prices per lb. in Stuttgart. 
Year. 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 
1905 
1906 
Ox beef. 
d. 
8 
8 
8 
it 
Cow beef. 
d. 
7 
I 
8 
8* 
Veal. 
d. 
8 
8* 
1 
Pork. 
d. 
8 
1 
Mutton. 
d. 
; 
7 
n 
It will be noticed that a rise is shown in pork in 1906, whereas the returns 
obtained by the investigator in July, 1906, showed a fall. The apparent dis 
crepancy is explained by the fact that the figures of the State Statistical Bureau 
are yearly averages. The market prices collected by the Stuttgart Municipal 
Statistical Office show that the price of pork fell in May of that year from 9^d. 
to 8|<i. per lb., but advanced again in September to 9Jd., the average for the 
year being 9d. 
Representing prices at Berlin by 100, the corresponding figures for 
Stuttgart are 107 for meat and 102 for other food, the result of combining these 
two figures, due regard being paid to their relative importance, being 103. 
The high price of fuel, however, with its index-number of 137, has the effect of 
raising the general prices index-number to 108, a figure which is exceeded by 
only three of the towns included in the present inquiry. Combining this high 
prices index-number with the exceptionally high index-number for rents, a 
resultant index-number amounting to 106 is obtained, which would indicate 
that the cost of living at Stuttgart is decidedly greater than in any other of the 
towns investigated. No other town has an index-number greater than 100, the 
figure which represents the cost of living in Berlin and in Mannheim.