Thursday, 17 March 2016

The 19th-Century Night Soil Men Who Carted Away America's Waste

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Before municipal sewer systems, excreta piled up in the privies of people's homes - essentially a deep hole in the ground. But these poop storage units did not have unlimited capacity. When the privies were eventually filled, that's when the night soil men were called in.

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