IF you have watched some old movies, you have probably seen that side character who carries two wooden buckets using a pole hoisted on his shoulders. That was the night soil collector – the person who carts off the waste-filled buckets from the toilets to be disposed of someplace else. Before the 1950s, this job, which many considered dirty, was commonplace in our society due to the lack of a systematic sewerage network then. This changed in the early 1960s, with the usage of septic tanks and ox
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