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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
Water.
Most of the district is supplied with water by the South
Essex Water Works Co. The area north-west of Hog Hill is
supplied by the Metropolitan Water Board and in some parts of
the district shallow wells are still in existence.
Drainage ana Sewerage.
The district is sewered in the following manner:—
(1) A sewer starting in Chadwell Heath passes southward
and is joined by one from Wood Lane running to the
Becontree section. It follows the Gores Brook to
Gores Bridge and proceeds east.
(2) A second sewer from Chadwell Heath passes through
Beacontree Heath to Dagenham village and joins the
first in Broad Street.
(3) Another sewer draining the central section of the new
estate passes down Heathway to join the others.
(4) The Chequers Lane or Dagenham Dock section passes
via ejectors joining the other at Chequers Lane.
The combined sewer then proceeds in the line of New Road
to the Riverside Outfall Works in South Hornchurch.
All new streets on the L.C.C. Estate are sewered.
The northern part of the district possesses no sewer. There
is a small colony in the Hog Hill area of about 40 houses, draining
partly into cesspools and partly by an ancient combined
drain (about 400 yards in length) which discharges into a ditch
adjoining a main road. It does not seem practicable to connect
this colony to any of the hiain sewers but a small sewerage
system would appear to be possible, and desirable.
Closet Accommodation.
The houses of the district are in the main connected to sewers
but in some of the outlying parts cesspools are in existence,
These are emptied now into the sewers instead of as formerly
the contents being deposited on fields. The Merryweather
motor vacuum cesspool emptier has now been replaced by a
Garratt gully and cesspool emptier.
The night-soil from the few earth-closets in the northern
part of the district and Eastbrook End Lane is collected by a
tumbler cart and deposited on to fields.