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Condition of
Burial Grounds
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. No
addition to any burial ground has been made this year.
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
good order. Most of the milk is sent to London new. The
larger dairies and cowsheds are always found in good order ;
in the smaller ones containing from 1 to 3 or 4 cows, is
where defects are found.
Bye-laws in force
and Acts of
par1iament
adopted
Public Health Act, 1875; Notification of Diseases Act;
Dairy, Cowsheds and Milkshops' Order; Model Bye-laws as
to New streets and Buildings; Housing for the Working
Classes' Act; all of which are enforced.
Periodical Inspection
The public wells were all examined, both as to quantity
and quality of supply; the water was found good in both
respects. Systematic inspection of part of district has been
made—about 360 houses in all.
Number of
houses unfit
for habitation
The number of houses found unfit for habitation was 22
of which 10 were closed, and 12 repaired and made fit for
habitation.
Sanitary lmprove
ments effected,
or about to be
effected
The scheme for draining the district round Tilbury
Docks (being parts of Chadwell-St.-Mary and Little Thurrock),
the main sewers of which had been laid from Tilbury
station, and from Little Thurrock to the confines of the
district, and there joined on to the system of tanks in connection
with the Grays drainage works, and the Dock dwellings
and other houses and buildings on the Docks is now completed,
and about 280 houses are connected with it, and also the
Dock dwellings and Cottages.
The adoption of Model Bye-laws as to New streets and
Buildings for the whole district.
The appointment of a Sanitary Surveyor