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(b) Mary Place Scheme.
This scheme provides for the erection of 32 cottages, each having two living rooms
and three bedrooms.
Twenty-two cottages are in course of erection by the contractor and will be ready
for occupation in the Summer of 1921; tenders for the remaining ten will be
invited shortly.
(c) St. Quintin Estate Scheme.
The scheme provides for the erection of 18 cottages and 190 flats.
Four cottages, each containing 2 living rooms and 4 bedrooms; 14 flats, each
containing 1 living room and 3 bedrooms; and 22 flats, each containing
1 living room and 2 bedrooms, are in course of erection, but tenders have
not yet been invited for the others.
It is somewhat doubtful whether the Council will be in a position to complete
the whole of this scheme or any very considerable portion thereof by the
month of July, 1922, which, as the law now stands, is the date fixed for the
termination of the period in which schemes must be completed if they are
to rank for Government subsidy.
The question of the position of the Council in regard to this scheme is at the
present time receiving consideration.
DR. SCHUSTER'S HOUSING SCHEME IN THE NOTTING DALE AREA.
The only housing accommodation being provided in the Borough, in addition to that under
the Council's three schemes, is in connection with Dr. Schuster's housing programme in the
Notting Dale area.
The work commenced in 1914 with the erection of eleven cottages in Mary Place. The
War prevented further progress until 1920, when four cottages in Thresher's Place were completed.
At the end of the year, the erection of five flats was in progress. Sixteen cottages are to be built
in Tobin Street at an early date.
HOUSING STATISTICS FOR 1920 (MINISTRY OF HEALTH TABLE).
1. Estimated population 165,496
2. General death-rate 13.4
3. Death-rate from tuberculosis 1.09
4. Infantile mortality rate 81
5. No. of dwelling houses of all classes:—
(a) Separately occupied tenements in the Borough according to the
Census of 1911. (This number represents families or households
separately occupying their own rooms in 1911) 38,118
(b) Occupied houses in the Borough in 1920. (The figures are
obtained from the Rate Collector's returns, in which a house let
in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family
is reckoned as a single house. Computed on this basis, the
number in 1911 was 27,507) 26,025
6. No. of working class dwelling houses:—
(а) With three or less bedrooms 775
(b) No. of tenements in block buildings 464
(c) No. of mews dwellings 2,091
(d) Houses intended for one family only, which are now occupied
(without having been specially adapted) by two or more families 5,690
7. No. of new working class houses erected:—
(а) Cottages erected by private enterprise 4
(b) Flats or maisonettes provided by Council 102
(c) Houses or flats in course of erection 67
8. Total number of dwelling houses inspected by Sanitary Inspectors for housing
defects (under Public Health or Housing Acts) 6,258
9. Number of dwelling houses which were inspected and recorded under the Housing
(Inspection of District) Regulations, 1910 74
10. Number of dwelling houses found to be in a state so dangerous or injurious to
health as to be unfit for human habitation 9
11. Number of dwelling houses (exclusive of those referred to under the preceding
heading) found not to be in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation 2,162
12. Number of defective dwelling houses rendered fit in consequence of informal action
by the Local Authority or their officers 20