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(f) 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 300; but the greater portion of
the workers travel to London, as may 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
Roding the eastern boundary of the District, both rivers 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.) Great attention has been given both by the Inspector
and myself to the Bakehouses and Slaughter-houses, and they are
mostly in a satisfactory condition.
During the year 1899, the number of deaths registered for the
District, was 1,201, excluding 41 who died in the West Ham
Union, 3 in the Plaistow Infectious Diseases Hospital, and,
calculated on a population of 80,000, this will give a death
rate of 15 per 1,000 for the year.
The number of births registered for the same period was
3,028—viz 1,605 males, and 1,423 females; this gives a birth-
rate of 37.8 per 1,000.