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2. Provided by Private Enterprise.
With the exception of five houses, four in the northern part of the Borough and one in the
south, the only new housing accommodation provided in the Borough since the war other than by
the Council, is that in connection with Dr. Schuster's housing programme in the Notting Dale Area.
A commencement was made by Dr. Schuster in 1914 when 11 cottages in Mary Place were
erected. The War intervening, nothing more was attempted until 1920, when a further 4 cottages
were built in Threshers Place.
The work has continued steadily, 9 flats in Walmer Road, Princes Road and Threshers Place
and 2 cottages in Tobin Street were completed in 1921, and during last year, 2 flats in Threshers
Place and 2 flats in Tobin Street were completed and 4 houses in Kenley Street, at the corner of
Sirdar Road, were converted into 10 flats.
At the time of writing this report, the erection of 1 cottage and 2 sets of flats in Tobin Street
and 1 cottage in Threshers Place, is in hand.

The above tenements are all within the Borough.

It will be seen that there are only three common lodging houses for men in the Borough, one
of these being in the Golborne Ward and the other two in the Notting Dale district of the Norland
Ward.
Dr. Barnardo's Home for Women is licensed annually as a common lodging house, but it does
not come within the strict definition of one and would not be registered if Dr. Barnardo's
Association did not voluntarily submit an application each year. This Home is intended primarily
for absolutely destitute mothers with young children, but old women are accepted. The lodgers
are not asked to make any payment. The doors are opened about 8 p.m.; the lodgers then receive
supper and retire for the night; they must leave the premises early next morning. The institution
is clean throughout and I can well imagine the feeling of comfort that weary mothers must
experience when they sit down to eat their evening meal from a scrupulously clean plain wooden
table in a brightly lighted room with a good fire burning.
Of the other 5 common lodging houses for women, one is situated in Sirdar Road, one in
Bangor Street and three in Crescent Street. Curiously enough, these houses are within a stone's
throw of one another and are located in the Notting Dale Area of the Norland Ward.
In each of three of these institutions for women, two adjoining dwellings have been converted
into a common lodging house, and in each of the other two, one dwelling is being used for the