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Orsett 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orsett]

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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 and Slaughter-houses have been
found in good order.
Bak e-h ouses
Slaughter
Houses.
Cowsheds, Dairies, and Milkshops 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 in good order ; in the smaller
ones containing 1 to 3 or 4 cows, it is that defects
are found.
CowshedsDairies
and Milkshops
Public Health Act, 1875; Notification of Diseases
Act ; Dairy, Cowsheds, and Milkshops' Order;
Model Bye-laws as to New Streets and Buildings;
Houses for the Working Classes' Act; Clauses of
Public Health Act Amendment Act, 1890; all of
which are enforced.
Bye-laws in
force and Acts
of Parliament
adopted
A house to house inspection of part of Aveley
and the Docks has been made, about 200 houses
having been inspected and many defects found,
which have almost all been rectified. In other
parts over 400 inspections have been made.
Periodical Inspection
The number of houses found unfit for habitation
was four, three of which were repaired and made
fit for habitation and one house was closed.
Number of
Houses unfit
for habitation
Making up and Curbing Streets at the Docks
and Stanford-le-Hope. Supply of Water to Orsett
and Corringham. Scheme prepared for drainage
of West Thurrock and South StifFord.
Sanitary 1 m
provements