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previous years, a short account of the sanitary state of the district,
under the same heads of localities as are given in the statistical tables.
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, 5,500.
Agricultural. Water supply mainly from South Essex Company.
The village of Dagenham is in a had 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. Birth-rate, 34.7.
Death-rate, 163. Death-rate from zymotic disease, 2.3 per 1,000 of
the population. A complete system of sewage removal has been
decided upon, and now rests with the Local Government Board.
Havering stands high on pebble sand, bounded by London and
boulder clay. Population 508. 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
instances being from ponds. Birth-rate 15.7; Death-rate 9 8;
Death-rate from Zymotic disease, Nil
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, 4,800, principally agricultural, foundry works and a
brewery in the village. A good part of the village supplied with pail
closets, other houses drain into cesspools, many of which overflow into