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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
At Orsett, Chad well-St. - Mary, Little Thurrock.
North Ockendon, Bulphan, Stanford-le-Hope.
Stifford, South Ockendon and Horndon-on-the-Kill
additions to burial grounds have been recently
made. There is a cemetery in Little Thurrock
belonging to Grays.
Bakehouses
Slaughter
-houses.
Bakehouses and slaughterhouses have been found
in good order.
Cowsheds Dairies
and Milkshops
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.
Bye-laws in
force and Acts
of Parliament
adopted
Public Health Act, 1875; Notification of Diseases
Act; Dairies, 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.
Periodical Inspection
A house to house inspection of West Thurrock
has been made, about 400 houses having been
inspected and many defects found, which have
almost all been rectified. I11 other parts nearly 300
inspections have been made.