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Essex Company. Some wells. Birth-rate, 21.6. Death-rate, 15.5.
Death-rate from zymotic disease, 21. A system of sewerage for the
locality in course of adoption.
Great Warlfey stands high on London clay. The most thicklypopulated
part of the parish joins the town of Brentwood, in the
Billericay Union, the larger area of the parish having scattered houses
and groups of houses. Population 1,890. Agricultural. A system
of sewerage has been recently adopted for the populous portion of this
locality, the sewage being taken at a distance and treated on the
septic principle of purification. This, so far, is a great success, there
is not the least nuisance in the locality of the Sewage Works, and
the effluent after running over land in furrows is perfectly clear
and inodorous. Water supply for the locality mainly from the
South Essex Works, some wells. The more sparsely-populated rural
part of the locality is badly supplied, ponds being a main source of
supply in some parts. Birth-rate, 32.8. Death-rate, 11.05. Deathrate
from zymotic disease, 2.5.
Rainham and Wennington lie low on gravel and alluvium at
the edge of the Thames. Marshy. Village of 2,300 inhabitants.
Agricultural and river traffic. Tidal stream runs through Rainham
to the Thames, about one mile distant. No system of sewage removal
or scavenging. Privies and cesspools. Foul state of atmosphere
frequent from factories on river bank (manure, candles, glue, &c.),
some on the Essex, most on the Kent side of the river. Water
swpply mostly from South Essex Company, some wells, some of which
are polluted. Birth-rate, 313. Death-rate, 7.3. Death-rate from
zymotic disease, 0.8.
III.—An account of the enquiries as to the conditions injurious
to health existing in the district, and of the proceedings
relating to such conditions in which advice has hern given,
&c., &c.
In addition to the cases of infectious diseases recorded in Section
I. of this report, the following insanitary conditions, &c., necessitating
official interference by the Sanitary Inspector, who called in my