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3. Thickening Substances.—Any evidence of their
addition to cream or to preserved cream. Action
taken where found Nil
4. Other observations (if any) —
During the year the Home & Colonial Stores, Ltd., were
registered as Wholesale Dealers in Margarine at their following
premises in the Borough:—11, Angel Lane; 11, Woodgrange
Road; 388, Green Street; 119, Levtonstone Road; 60, Stratford
Road; 3, Church Street; 290, Barking Road; 11, Freemasons
Road; 15 and 110, Victoria Dock Road.
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 through appropriate pipes
into 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 Dock, 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 sewerage
is pumped into the Northern Metropolitan Outfall Sewer which crosses
the Borough obliquely, whence it gravitates to the London Outfall at
Barking.