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the cottages supplied with pail closets, emptied once a week by the
Sanitary Authority. A system of scavenging is in force. Dust-bins
are periodically emptied by the Authority. There still exists 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
conditions. Birth-rate, 362. Death-rate, 1504. Death-rate from
zymotic disease, 2.06 per 1,000 of the population. A complete system
of sewage removal has been decided upon, and is now in course of
construction.
Noak Hill stands high on London clay. Population, 260.
Birth-rate, 7 3. Death-rate, 3 8. Death-rate from zymotic disease,
Nil. "Water supply from private wells.
Havering stands high on pebble sand, bounded by London and
boulder clay. Population, 405. Agricultural. Privies. Water
supply 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, 26-9. Death-rate, 4 9
Death-rate from zymotic disease, Nil.
Hornchurch.—Large village and scattered groups of houses
extending over a large parochial area. Part of the parish adjoiuing
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, 6,800, principally agricultural, foundry works and a
brewery in the village. A very extensive system of sewerage for the
village is now completed and a sanitary improvement of great value
has been effected. A system of sewerage for the outlying locality of
Harold Wood is also now in operation. Birth-rate, 23.7. Deathrate,
11 "7. Death-rate from zymotic disease, 0 5.
Upminster, Cranham, and Corbets Tey.—Adjacent villages,
standing on high ground, mostly brick earth, some gravel. Population,
1,950. Agricultural. Water supply mostly from South Essex
Company; some wells. Birth-rate, 23.5. Death-rate, 14.3. Deathrate
from zymotic disease, 0 5.