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Officer of Health, but effectual dealing with the nuisance was
left for the Village and District Councils. At North Ockendon
the pail system is adopted to a great extent. Cesspits
abound almost everywhere, and at West Thurrock and parts
of Stifford many of the cesspits go down into the chalk from
which the South Essex Waterworks Company derives its
supply.
Condition of
Cottages, overcrowding
There is no public scavenging.
Considerable attention has for years been given to the
condition of cottages. Many have been condemned and
closed, and many more put into a good state of repair.
Overcrowding does not prevail to any great extent.
Industries carried
on. Effects
on health
The only industry carried on largely in the District is
Cement making, and in one of the processes connected with
this (viz , Grinding the Cement), I have thought the dust
inhaled to be a cause of Bronchitis and Lung Irritation.
Character of
Streams
The only streams in the District are the Mardyke and
Stanford Brook. The Mardyke rises in Warley and enters
this District between Bulphan and North Ockendon, flows
IN orthward between Orsett and South Ockendon, then turns
to the West through Stifford and between West Thurrock
and Aveley, and empties itself into the Thames above
Purfleet. It occasionally overflows and submerges parts of
Bulphan and Orsett Fens, and the land adjoining its banks
through Stifford to its junction with the Thames—not
polluted. Stanford Brook drains the Southern and part of
the Western slope of Laindon Hills, it runs between
Horndon-on-the-Hill and Stanford-le-Hope, and then between
Mucking and Stanford-le-Hope, joining the Thames in the
Lower Hope. It is a tidal stream as high as Stanford
Bridge; about 500 yards below this it receives the drains
from Stanford Brewery and several cottages in the sand pits.
Condition of
BurialGrounds
For the most part, the burial grounds are overcrowded,
especially so at Stanford-le Hope, Horndon-on-the-Hill and
South Ockendon. At Orsett, Chadwell-St.-Mary, Little
Thurrock and North Ockendon, additions to burial grounds
have been recently made, or are about to be made. There is
a cemetery in Little Thurrock belonging to Grays, which has
been only recently opened.
Bake-houses,
Slaughterhouses
Bake-houses and Slaughter-houses have been found in
good order.
Cowsheds,dairies
and Milk shops
Cowsheds, Dairies and Milk shops are frequently
inspected by the Inspector of Nuisances and occasionally by
myself. All, with trifling exceptions, have been found in