... cemeteries. This Board of Health also insisted that every new household should have at least one private toilet or privy. The older houses were all connected to a drain or cesspit so that all of the waste could be disposed of in a more hygienic manner, rather than throwing the waste out of their window, most probably landing on somebody on the way down, and then possibly hoping that the waste would slowly run down to the local cesspit at the end of every street of houses. Now, the inhabitants could merely send their waste directly to the local cesspit, thus, a lot less people got covered in the waste (which was one of the key causes of Cholera), and a lot less (if any) waste was running through the middle of the streets. Although the old houses and new houses were being upgraded, in the new houses, the Board ...

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