[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham].

  • East Ham (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9 a through service of trams and motor omnibuses, which convey a large number of the population, chiefly consisting of clerks, warehousemen, mechanics, postal and telephone officials to and from the City of London. The industries of the district are the Beckton Works of the Gas Light and Coke Company, Royal Albert Docks, a firm of wholesale druggists, several manufacturers of ladies' wearing apparel, a butter substitute factory, a food factory, monumental masons, artificial flower workshop and office paste works. The district has grown from a population of 96,018 in 1901, to 146,526 in 1914, and is still growing. The building of the new docks (now under construction by the Port of London Authority) will increase the demand for houses in that part of the Borough. The houses now being erected in the immediate neighbourhood of the Greatfield Estate are very satisfactory, each with a small piece of garden at the rear. The subsoil is sand and gravel with the exception of a por tion in the south of the Borough, where it consists of alluvium overlying London clay. The altitude is low, the highest point being about 50 feet above ordnance datum.