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(£.) The principal industries are the Beckton Gas Works
and the products in connection therewith, there are also a
large number of men in the South of the District who work at
the Royal Albert Docks; the Building Trades employ a great
number, and the Urban District Council about 200; while the
greater part of the workmen travel to London, as will be seen
by the overcrowded condition of the trains both night and
morning. The inhabitants appear healthy, and do not suffer
from any special disease.
(g.) The Thames forms the Southern Boundary, and the
Boding the Eastern Boundary of the District, both of course
being tidal.
(h.) No fresh Bye-Laws have been adopted during the
year.
(i.) In every new road the main sewer is laid, and the
houses connected with it.
(j.) Several cases of Overcrowding have occurred, and
have been dealt with satisfactorily.
(k.) Great attention has been given both by the Inspector
and myself to the Bakehouses and Slaughterhouses, and they
are mostly in a satisfactory condition.
(I.) Systematic Inspections of premises, etc., have been
carried out, both by the Inspector and myself, for the abatement
of Nuisances, and in the majority of cases Notices were
sufficient, in others Legal Proceedings were taken.
During the year 1897, the number of deaths registered for
the District was 822, excluding 22 who died in the West Ham
Union and 3 in the Plaistow Isolation Hospital, and, calculated
on a population of 60,000, will give a Death-rate of 13 7 per
1000 for the year.