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Dagenham, Beacontree Heath, and Chadwell Heath.—
Villages and scattered groups of houses, all situated in the parish of
Dagenham, and occupying a very wide area, standing on gravel and
on London clay, some (part of Dagenham village and immediate
neighbourhood) on alluvium. Estimated population, 5,020.
Agricultural. Water supply mainly from South Essex Company.
The village of Dagenham is in a bad Sanitary condition, owing to the
ground being saturated by years' overflowing cesspools and slop-water.
Most of the cottages supplied with pail closets, emptied once a week
by the Sanitary Authority. A system of scavenging is now in force,
the owners of cottages having been called upon by the Sanitary
Authority to provide dust-bins, which are periodically emptied by the
Authority. There still exists, though, a condition of soil sodden by
sewage overflow from cesspools, and which nothing but some system
of drainage will relieve, and until this is done, the village must
continue to be in a bad Sanitary condition. The system recommended
by me, and at one time all but sanctioned by the Sanitary
Authority, was, I believe, frustrated by the short-sighted opposition
of the Parish Councilin 189(5. Birth-rate, 31.8. Death-rate, 16.5.
Death-rate from zymotic disease, 1.1 per 1,000 of the population.
Collier Row stands on the London clay. Estimated population
860. Scattered houses and groups of houses. Privies. Water-supply
partly from wells and partly from South Essex Company; some
portion badly supplied, owing to the distance of the dwellings from
the mains. Local nuisances from sewage overflowing from cesspits,
&c., into ditches, requiring frequent interference from the Sanitary
Inspector. Birth-rate, 36.04. Death-rate, 17.4. Death-rate from
zymotic disease, 1.1.
N.B.—It is impossible to gauge the sanitary condition of sparselypopulated
localities such as this by the death-rate, the occurrence of
a few casual deaths apparently and erroneously giving a large rate
of mortality for the small population.
Havering stands high on pebble sand, bounded by London and
boulder clay. Population 500. Agricultural. Privies. Watersupply
from wells and from South Essex Company. Some of the
out-lying parts of the parish badly supplied, the source in these