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building going on, and application has been made
for water certificates, the supply being rain water,
caught from the roofs of the houses. I have advised
my Council, that the rain-fall in South Essex is not
large enough to make it certain that enough water
will be able to be collected from the roof of an
ordinary house to give a constant supply for an
ordinary family. The Council has consequently, at
present, refused to grant certificates. Just lately
two wells have been dug which appear to give a
good supply and will prove to be of good quality.
The source of the water is the cap of bagshot beds
on the top of the hill.
A sewer is laid from Tilbury Station to join the'
Grays system, draining the houses and buildings at
Tilbury Docks, and parts of Chadwell-St.-Mary and
Little Thurrock. The sewer at Little Thurrock has
been extended, and now drains the part near Palmer's
Schools, Chadwell Road and the "Slips." At Stanford-le-Hope
the sewer has been laid, and bacteria
beds formed, and are now in use, 333 connections
have been made. At Digby Road, Corriugham,
about 80 houses are drained down to bacteria beds,
near the junction of Corringham and Fobbing. I11
no other parish is there a proper sewerage system.
At Orset, the Union House and about 28 cottages
are connected with a sewer discharging into a subsidence
tank, which also receives the sewage from
25 to 30 houses and cottages to the East of the
Church, the overflow runs into a ditch some 300
yards away. At Horndon-on-the-Hill, South Ockendon,
Aveley, and West Thurrock, some few
cottages are connected with drains, which empty
themselves into the nearest ditch.
Public scavenging is in force at West Thurrock,
Little Thurrock, Stifford, Tilbury Docks, and
Stanford-le-Hope. Moveable galvanized dust-bins
have been provided. At South Ockendon, Stifford,
Pillages with
Public Sewers,
mode of disposal,
&c.,
W.C.'s, privies,
ash pits