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Any idea why would they put the latrines next to, or apparently even _inside_ the kitchen? I get that they might not haven been aware of germs or correlated ba
by saganus 5y ago
Any idea why would they put the latrines next to, or apparently even _inside_ the kitchen?
I get that they might not haven been aware of germs or correlated bathrooms with disease or whatever, but just based on the odors alone, it seems a strange decision...
- voidfunc 5y agoYour slaves worked in the kitchen. Nobody cared too much whether it smelled.
- Koshkin 5y agoIt kind of does matter what the kitchen smells of.
- Pasorrijer 5y agoThis is entirely guessing. But if you were drilling a hole to the sewers, both the toilet and the kitchen needed a hole so that could greatly simplify plumbing and construction.
- kraftman 5y agoit says in the article above that most werent connected to the sewers
- coldacid 5y agoIt's still cheaper to dig one cesspit for your villla than two.
- fho 5y agoSounds reasonable ... I've been to some pre-WW2 city houses where the toilet and shower were directly next to the kitchen. Just running one set of pipes sounds like a good explanation for that.
- cblconfederate 5y agoprobably water was near.