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Particulars of Adulterations—continued.
Butter—continued.
Number
Percent. of Cases.
22.5 foreign fat 1
17.7 „ 1
11.9 „ 1
11.4 „ 1
7.2 excessive water 1
Sewerage and Drainage.—The water carriage system of
sewage removal is almost universal throughout the whole area of the
district. With few exceptions, all houses are provided with properlyflushed
modern water-closets, discharging into appropriate pipe or
brick sewers, which also convey the surface water and most of the
rainfall. The southern portion of the Borough, being isolated by the
Victoria and Albert Docks, is drained into a main sewer running from
west to east through a narrow strip of the southern portion of the
Borough of East Ham, whence it discharges into the London County
Council sewer in North Woolwich.
The north-western corner of the Borough—an area of roughly
120 acres, containing two terraces of houses and some isolated houses
and factories—remains unsewered, the excrement disposal consisting
of cesspools, while scattered cesspools are to be found here and there
in a few places remote from the general system of sewerage.
The sewers draining the main portion of the district (five-sixths
of the whole area) converge by means of specially-constructed intercepting
sewers to the Corporation's pumping station, situate near the
middle of the western border of the Borough. Here the sewage is
Number
Percent. of Cases
Lard—
12.0 cotton seed oil 1
Coffee—
90.0 chicory 1
38.0 1