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years, and the death-rate low, being 3.34 below tlie
average of the last 10 years, and the lowest ever
recorded by me. The death-rate of infants per
1,000 births registered is 27 below the average
of the last 10 years.
[The birth-rate for Bngland and Wales for 1905
was 27.2 and the death-rate uncorrected was 15.2.
Deaths under one year to 1,000 births, England
and Wales 128, less the 217 large towns 113. For
Bngland and Wales, less the 217 large towns,
the birth-rate was 26.9 and the death-rate 14.9].
Number of Persons
per acre,
and Num helper
Inhabited
House
About 2 acres to one person. The number of
inhabited houses in the district is about 4,000, and
the number of inhabitants per house 5.5. At West
Thurrock there are 7 inhabitants per house.
Chief Geological
Features.
The geological formation underlying the district
is chalk, which crops out at Grays and Stifford.
Thanet sands occur on the uplands of Aveley,
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, Laindon Hills, 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 Physical
Features.
The district is for the most part flat and low
The only hill of importance is Laindon Hills (in