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Infant mortality, or the number of Deaths under 1 year,
was 106; and measured by the proportion of Deaths to Births
registered was 161 to the 1,000 and is 18 above those of last
year, and 31 above the average of the last ten years.
Infant Mortality
The number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic
Diseases was 69 and the Death-rate per 1,000 per annum
was 3.39. This Death-rate is high, but is .18 below that of
last year.
Zymotic Disease
The high Death-rate and the high Death-rate from
Zymotic Diseases, was caused chiefly by the number of deaths,
from Small-pox (32) and Epidemic Diarrhoea (19).
About 2 acres to 1 person. The number of inhabited
houses in the district is 3602, and the number of inhabitants
per house 5'5. At West Thurrock there are 7 inhabitants
per house.
Number of Persons
per acre,
and Number
per Inhabited
House
The geological formation underlying the district is
chalk, which crops out at Grays and Stifford. Thanet sands
occur on the uplands of Avelev, Grays, Little Thurrock,
Chadwell-St.-Mary, and "West Tilbury. Woolwich beds at
parts of Orsett, South Horndon-on-the-Hill (Pump Street),
and North Stanford-le-Hope. London clay crops out at
Bulphan and the adjoining parts of Orsett, Horndon-on-the
Hill, and Laindon Hill, Corringham, and Fobbing. Patches
of Bagshot beds occur at Laindon Hills (the top) and Dry
Street, Fobbing. Brick Earth and Gravel at various places.
Alluvial deposit on the whole South border of District and
greater part of the Eastern Boundary, and at Orsett and
Bulphan Fens.
Chief Geological
Features
The District is for the most part flat and low. The
only Hill of importance is Laindon Hills (in the North
East), 385ft. high. It is bounded on the South and East
(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 East. At the
North edge of the Marshes the land rises to a height of
100ft. or so, the greater part of the District being a tableland,
which gradually falls to the North.
Chief Physical
Features
The chief supply of the district is derived from the
South-Essex Water Company. The mains supply Tilbury
Docks, Little Thurrock, West Thurrock, Stifford, Aveley,
and South and North Ockendon. The wells are situated one
at Grays in the chalk pits, and one (recently purchased) at
Linford, Mucking, supplying Stanford-le-Hope and having
mains laid to Horndon-on-the-Hill and also along the road
Water Supply