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(in great part) by the river Thames. Bordering the Thames
are Marsh lands, varying in width from a few yards (at
Purfleet) to 1½ miles on the South-East and Bast. At the
North edge of the Marshes the land rises to a height of
100-ft. or so, the greater part of the District being a tableland,
which gradually falls to the North.
Villages with
Public Water
supply
Little Thurrock, West Thurrock, Stifford, South Ockendon
and North Ockendon, and that part of Chadwell-StMary
round Tilbury Docks and the Dock Dwellings all have
the South-Essex Waterworks mains going through them,
and for the most part are supplied from this source. The
superficial wells in these districts are being closed as necessity
requires.
Character and
source of water
used in other
villages
Bulphan and the Eastern parts of North. Ockendon are
supplied with water from deep artesian wells (over 100-ft.
deep), which constantly overflow above the surface of the
ground. Orsett, East Tilbury and Mucking are supplied from
superficial wells. The upper parts of West Tilbury and
Chadwell-St-Mary from deep wells, many 70 or 80-ft. deep.
Stanford-le-Hope, the older part of the village is supplied
from a superficial well near the railway; the newer part, to
the North, by superficial wells; and the still newer part, to
the South, by superficial but much deeper wells. Horndonon-the-Hill
is supplied from a superficial public well to the
South (Pump Street), and the water is carted up to the
village in butts and retailed at a ¼d. per pail. Corringham
is supplied from a superficial public well. Fobbing is chiefly
supplied from two wells, one at the bottom of the hill to the
West, and the other a private well in the "White Lion"
yard. Laindon Hills is the worst supplied village in the
district, the supply for that part called Dry Street is from a
spring, in what is no more than a pool or pond, and constantly
liable to pollution from surface water. Steps are
being taken to enclose this spring and make it fit to use for
drinking purposes.
Villages with
Public Sewers
A main sewer has been laid from Tilbury Station to
join the Grays system, and draining the houses and buildings
at Tilbury Docks, and the surrounding parts of Ohadwell-StMary,
and Little Thurrock.
Vill a ges with
Public Sewers,
mode of disp
o s al, &c
W.C.'s, privies,
ash pits.
In no parish is there a proper sewerage system. At
Orsett, the Union House and about 25 cottages are connected
with a sewer discharging into a subsidence tank, which also
receives the sewage from 20 to 25 houses and cottages to the