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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Havering 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Havering]
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amenity greens on their housing and industrial estate at Harold
Hill.
The Greater London Council also administer Hainault
Forest, 78 acres of which are within the Borough.
A small group of woodlands within the eastern boundary
of the Borough amounting to 58.6 acres is owned and administered
by the Essex County Council as also is Upminster Common
comprising 77 acres.
At the present time the Council provides the following sports pitches:—
| Football pitches | 49 |
| Cricket squares | 26 |
| Hockey Pitches | 7 |
| Rugby pitches | 3 |
| Bowling greens | 7 |
| Tennis courts | 85 |
| Netball hard courts | 4 |
| Putting greens | 10 |
| Miniature golf courses | 6 |
| Boating lake | 1 |
| Fishing lakes | 2 |
| Roller skating arena | 1 |
| Sports stadium (Floodlit) | 1 |
| Grass athletic track | 1 |
| All-weather pitch (Floodlit) | 1 |
RIVERS, STREAMS AND WATERCOURSES
The principal river in the area is the Thames which forms
the southern boundary of the Borough.
Two tributaries of the Thames (Rivers Ingrebourne and Rom)
traverse the district from north to south and in the case of the
Rom is joined by the Ravensbourne in the southern part of the
Borough to form the Beam River.
During the year under review the water in the River Rom
and Beam River has remained reasonably clean down to the
outfall of the Bretons Farm Sewage Works.
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