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Upminster, Cranham, and Corbets Tey.—Adjoining villages
standing oh high ground. Mostly brick earth, some gravel. Population
2,410. Birte-rate, 15.4. Death-rate, 7.9. Death-rate from
zymotic disease, Nil. A large estate for good-class residences being
now developed, many houses having been erected during the last
two or three years. Water supply mainly from South Essex Co.
Some outlying parts formerly badly supplied by private wells and
ponds have recently been supplied by an extension of the South
Essex Co.'s mains.
great Warley stands high on London clay. The most thickly
populated part of the plarish forms part of the town of Brentwood, the
large and less populated area having scattered houses and groups of
houses. Population, 2,380. Agricultural. Water supply mainly
from South Essex Water Company. Birth-rate, 23.5. Death-rate,
7 5. Death-rate from zymotic disease, Nil.
Rainham and Wennington lie low on gravel and alluvium at
the edge of the Thames. Marshy. Villages of 2,520 inhabitants,
employed in agriculture, factory, and riverside work. Tidal stream
runs through Rainham to the Thames, about a mile distant. Birthrate,
281. Death-rate, 16.5. Death-rate from zymotic disease,
0.3. Rainham, in years past. has borne an unenviable reputation for
infectious disease, notably Diphtheria. There has been a marked
improvement the last few years in this respect, and the village has
been much improved by the Council making several incompleted
roads into roads of the first order.
NOAK hill stands high on London clay. Population, 264.
Agricultural. Water supply indifferent, the water area being very
difficult to tap. Several boring attempts in recent years having
failed to obtain supplies. Birth-rate 7.5. Death-rate, 7.5. Death-rate
from zymotic disease, Nil.
HAVERING stands high on pebble sand, bounded by London clay.
Population 440. Agricultural and good-class residents. Birth-rate,
184, Death-rate, 18.4 Death-rate from zymotic diseases, Nil.
Water supply much improved by the extension of the South Essex
Co.,s mains to this district.
N.B.—The death-rate in such sparsely populated localities is no
index of the salubrity of such locality.