Expenditures of the Russo-Japanese war / by Gotaro Ogawa.

246 ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
DECREASE IN LUXURIES, 1903-I905
Date ~~Silk Silk Silk Plate- Mt
Date ~linings fabrics wadding glass Mt
I903 Per cent Per cent Per cent Per cent Per cent
January....... 125.0 102.6 93.4 77.0 97.I
June........ 120.0 103.5 92.8 76.9 8o.o
December... ii6.6 115.5 100.0 69.0 8o.o
I904
January..1.... 15.0 115.9 99.4 68.o 80.9
March.11I5.0 I 3. 98.2 72.8 8o.o
June.1I15.0 112.4 97.0 7I.6 78.5
Septemnber.11.... 3.7 I12.4 94.0 94.3 85.7
December.1I07.3 107.1 91.6 98.0 98.1
1905
January. 115.0 102.2 92.8 94.5 100.0
March..ii6.o 110.2 91.1 92.9 100.0
June. 11~~~I5.0 133.3 92.2 109.3 100.0
September.1 03.3 142.2 98.8 105.4 111.3
WAGE FLUCTUATION, I90I-I907
Wages 1901 1902 I903 1904 1905 1906 1907
Farm.1I02.4 100.7 105.0 104.2 109.7 111.9 126.0
Clothing and accessories. 103.4 I07.8 io8.6 io6.8 112.5 121.5 131.5
Manufacture of
foods and drinks 100.9 i06.6 I11.2 io8.6 I11.2 113.4 I25.8
Building......io8.i 110.1 111.5 io8.o iii.8 I21.3 142.9
Furniture making 107.5 111.7 111 I.3 109.5 114.9 I22.1 134.1
Miscellaneous. 102.8 108.4 109.5 io8.i II2.4 i16.7 138.0
Average. 1I04.7 107.7 109.5 I07.5 a II21ja 118.4 134.1
a War period.
Taking the figures of 1901 as the base, the prices and
wages of 1904 were as I o8 +107.-5 and those of 1905 as
i 16+ 1 2. I, showing that living was more difficult in these
two years than in 1901. The effects of the war on living,
however, may be made clearer by comparing the conditions
in 1904 and I905 with those in 1903, the year immediately
before the outbreak of the war.
Wages in 1904.Wages in 1903 -LI
Prices in 1904 Prices in I903
Wages in 1905.Wages in 1903.L
Prices in 1905 Prices in 1903