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West Thurrock and Purfleet tank-vans are now
employed to empty the cesspools.
Condition of
Cottages overcrowding
Considerable attention lias for years been given
to the condition of cottages. Many have been condemned
and closed, and many more pnt into a good
state of repair. Overcrowding does not prevail to
any great extent.
Industries carried
on
The industries carried on largely in the District
are Oil refineries.—Paper making.—Bxplosives.—
Cement making.
Character of
Streams
The only streams in the District are the Mardyke
and Stanford Brook. The Mardyke rises in Warley
and enters this District between Bulphan and North
Ockendon, flows Southward between Orsett and
South Ockendon, then turns to the West through
Stifford and between West Thurrock and Aveley,
ond empties itself into the Thames above Purfleet.
It occasionally overflows and submerges parts of
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 Iyaindon
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-le-Hope, Stifford, 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.