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Rivers and Streams.
The upper portion of the district is drained by a number of
channels which run in a westerly direction, ultimately finding
their way out of the area into the River Roding, whieh discharges
into the Thames. The portion so drained includes the area north
of Hog Hill, Marks Gate, Chadwell Heath ward and part of the
Bccontrec Ward.
The eastern side of the district is drained by the Wantz
Stream running due south. The largest ditch runs into this
near Dewey Road. Another channel runs into it from the Old
Dagenham Park. The Wantz Stream then takes an easterly course
to connect to the Ream River, by which it empties into the Thames.
The third main surfacc drainage is the Gores Rrook. This runs
due south in the western portion of the Dagenham Ward and
discharges into the Dagenham Rreech.
Closet Accommodation.
The houses are, in the main, connected with sewers, though
in some of the outlying parts, cesspools arc in existence.
Some new houses erected on portions of the district not
sewered, arc granted habitation certificates subject to the occupier
undertaking to connect to the sowers when laid and, in the meantime,
making his own arrangements for the emptying of the
cesspool. This practice is one to be condemned, more particularly
in those portions of the district where there is no piped water
supply. One part is divided into building plots, unsewered and
without, water supply. Any cesspool constructed can only be
emptied within the confines of these plots with, in time, every
likelihood of a nuisance from odours and a perpetual risk of
infection of the water drawn from the surface well in the same
plot.