The Cotton Industry in France a Report to the Electors of the Gartside Scholars
The Cotton Industry in France a Report to the Electors of the Gartside Scholars
Robert Blair Forrester
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Mean . • 425 Blackburn . . . . 50 Bolton 53 Burnley 53 Oldham 60 Preston 48 Mean 52- Base, London = 100 (including local taxes. ) This supports the view of observers that French rents were low, and that Frenchmen did not covet more accommoda- tion with the extra cost of furnishing entailed ; it is also due to a difference in sanitary convenience and to the smaller average size of the French family. THE WORKMAN S BUDGET. The food supply of families is marked by considerable variety ; the meals a...re commonly (i) the light diet or breakfast before work, which would include coffee, rolls or bread, but 114 STANDARD OF LIVING sometimes cider or beer might be drunk, or soup taken ; (2) the dinner taken at midday, which would consist of two courses, and into which would enter soup, vegetables, some meat, bread, wine ; (3) the supper about 6 to 7 p. M. , with variations in these foods. There may occasionally be the aperitif later at the cafe. The workman consumes white bread of good quality, but little flour is bought for household use ; a feature is the relatively high expenditure on vegetables and fruit, including potatoes, this is reckoned to be 50% to 100% greater than the expenditure of a corresponding British family ; the consump- tion of sugar is small compared with British and German figures ; coffee is the usual non-alcoholic drink, vin ordinaire, and in the Nord, beer, are the common beverages.
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