[LINK] OT - delicate question

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Karl Auer wrote:
> The Link Institute being suitably eclectic, I feel sure no-one will mind
> me posing this question, which believe it or not is actually serious
> research :-)
> 
> Here it is: In the days of the outdoor dunny (outhouse, long drop,
> thunderbox), before toilet paper became ubiquitous and affordable by
> all, with what did one wipe one's bum?
> 
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I recall an episode of Worst jobs in history, which
detailed one of the jobs you could do for the king!

The film about Dunnies may have some info...

Historical records of the Sanitation and Health departments
may have some info...

and the water board and council archives may have something
as according to my research, the Sewers were going into the
cities in the 1890s and there were complaints "that his pan
was replaced by the by a damaged one by the night soil men"
<http://www.ramin.com.au/annandale/annandale-borough.shtml>

Marghanita
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