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taking their places. They were eventuality prevented from access
to the land by the cutting of trenches at the entrance to the
camping ground.
bird Lank, Upminster Common.—The South Essex water mains
have been extended to this locality, and all cottages there are
now supplied.
HORNCHURCH.—Sewers have been made in Walden Road, and the
road made up and taken over.
Sewers have been extended to Slewins Lane, Squirrels Heath,
Craigdale Road, Douglas Road (extension), and Osborne Road
(extension), have been made up and taken over.
UPMINSTER.-Roads have been finished and taken over by the
Council in this parish.
DAGENHAM.—The house connections with the sewers in this
parish are now being effected. Station Road, in the village, long
a blot in the sanitary condition of this locality, is now in course
of being made up, and will be then taken over by the Council,
an improvement long wanted but delayed by the non-completion
of the sewerage system. New roads on the Whalebone Estate are
also now in course of being made up. A great deal of sanitary work
which will undoubtedly be of much benefit, has been done in the
parish of Dagenham during the past year and is now being done,
i.e., old-standing and recurring nuisances from badly-constructed
and overflowing cesspools, foul ditches, &c., which will be obviated
by the connection of houses with the new sewer.
At the present time (February, 1910), there is considerably
less zymotic disease in the district than has been the case for several
years, a condition that has existed now for several months past.
The Council's attention has been drawn by me to the occurrence
of Scarlet Fever on three separate occasions in families residing
at Harold Wood, and which has undoubtedly been caused by infection
from the West Ham Convalescent Scarlet Fever Home, which has
recently been established here. The residents of this locality a???e
justly alarmed at the existence of this source of infection in their
midst, and correspondence between the Council and the Local Government
Board has been carried on respecting this matter.