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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
Condition of
Burial Grounds
Some of the burial grounds are overcrowded, especially
so at Horndon-on-the-Hill. At Orsett, Chadwell-St -Mary,
Little Thurrock, North Ockendon, Bulphan, Stanford-leHope,
Stitford, and South Ockendon, additions to burial
grounds have been recently made. There is a cemetery in
Little Thurrock belonging to Grays.
Bake-houses
Slaughter
Houses
Bake-houses and Slaughter-houses have been found in
good order.
CowshedsDairies
and Milkshops
Cowsheds, Dairies, and Milkshops are frequently
inspected by the inspector of Nuisance 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, it is
that defects are found.
Bye-laws inforce
and Acts of
Parliament
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; Clauses of Public Health Act Amendment
Act, 1890; all of which are enforced.
Periodical Inspectlon
A house to house inspection of Aveley has been made,
about 150 houses having been inspected and many defects
found, which have almost all been rectified. In other parts
over 600 inspections have been made.
Number of
Houses unfit
for habitation
The number of houses found unfit for habitation was
six, all of which were repaired and made fit for habitation.
Sanitary improvements
The sewerage of that part of Little Thurrock near
Palmer's School, and on Chadwell Road and the "Slips," the
total length of the sewer is about 1½ miles. Stanford-leHope—Drainage.
Chief Sanitary
requirements
Water supply to Horndon-on-the-Hill. Drainage of
West Thurrock and Aveley.
Action taken to
prevent spread
of Infectious
"Disease
Removal of 255 cases to the Orsett and Grrays Joint
Isolation Hospital. The isolation and disinfection of those