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Wetherell's Court, also was included in this List, but as this property
was simply a mass of ruins it was proposed to obtain a demolition order, but on
the owner agreeing that the Council should demolish and re-coup themselves by
having the materials for their trouble, the legal proceedings were not begun.
Model Cottages, Church Road.—These were voluntarily closed at the early
part of the year by the owner, in compliance with notice of the Local
Authority.
The rest of the courts and alleys of the Town have been inspected by me
and it is proposed to deal with them seriatim.
2. Outlying District.
In connection with the outlying districts, 1 have to report that I have
inspected the condition of the watercourses, and it is my opinion that during the
summer months, especially if the season is a dry one, a good deal of care will
have to be exercised to prevent some of them, at least, becoming a source of
danger to the health of the Town. The Loxford Brook, the Roding itself, and
the watercourses Over-tlie-Gates, having a connection with the East Ham
sewerage scheme, are especially dangerous. This matter is now before the
Sanitary Committee.
I have, in addition to these systematic inspections, visited many parts of
the Town during the year, sometimes at the request of ratepayers or on account
of the outbreak of infectious disease in such locality.
Sewerage System.
The system proposed by the scheme of 1884 is that by water carriage,
in sealed stoneware pipes, having separate pipes for surface drainage. (About
1200 yards of the old brick sewer of the town still remains, into which
the surface water of that part of the district finds its way.)
The sewage of the Town flows by gravitation down to the Sewage
Outfall Works by the side of the Creek, to be treated in the manner described
in my report for 1895.
Creeksmouth is not connected with the Sewerage system of the Town.
Eldred Road, part of Ripple Road, and Kennedy Estate are now served
partly by cesspools and partly by cesspools and earth closets. The Council
have this matter in hand, and it is hoped that it may be found possible to unite
this district to the main system.
In several parts of the Town, flushing apparatus to the w.c.'s have been
provided by the owners of the property at the instance of the District Council.