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localities being mainly from ponds, which in some instances, are
decidedly unfit for use. Birth-rate, 26.0. Death-rate, 10.0. Deathrate
from zymotic disease, nil.
Noak Hill, Romford Common, and Squirrels Heath.—
Estimated population, 1,300. Noak Hill stands high on London and
boulder clay. A small scattered hamlet. Agricultural. Privies.
Water supply from wells. Romford Common and Squirrels Heath
stands less high, partly on London clay and partly on gravel.
Agricultural, and railway employees at Great Eastern Railway
Provender and Tarpaulin Factory. Privies and cesspools. Water
supply, mostly good, from South Essex Company. Romford Common
is badly supplied, the water-bearing strata (as in the adjoining district
of Havering), being said to be difficult to tap. Birth-rate, 30.0.
Death-rate, 12.3. Death-rate from zymotic disease, 0.7.
Hornchurch.—Large village, and scattered groups of houses
extending over a large parochial area. Part of the parish adjoining
the town of Romford, and really constituting a portion of that town.
Stands mostly on gravel and partly on London clay, some small
portion of the parish running down to the Thames, and alluvial.
Population, 4,700, principally agricultural, foundry works, and a
brewery in the village. A large bicycle manufactory, employing
about 100 men and boys, near the village. No system of scavenging.
A good part of the village supplied with pail closets, other houses
drain into cesspools, many of which overflow into ditches, and, with
the brewery, pollute the neighbouring stream to a considerable extent.
That portion of the parish of Hornchurch running into the town of
Romford, which was in an extremely unsatisfactory condition as
regards its sewage removal, cesspools overflowing, and ditches full of
stagnant filth frequently causing interference from the Sanitary
Inspector, has been vastly improved by the system of sewerage
recently completed. Birth-rate, 27.8. Death-rate, 12.9. Death-rate
from zymotic disease, 0.6.
Upminster, Cranham, and Corhets Tey.—Adjacent villages,
standing on high ground, mostly brick earth, some gravel. Population
1,990. Agricultural. Privies and cesspools. Some few of the
latter polluting roadside ditches. Water supply, mostly from South