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 In
the 1700s, the most likely place for a potty would be in the dining
room.
They were kept inside sideboards, cupboards, and built into chairs.
Most Georgian houses had toilets that emptied into cesspits, and
plenty of people died from breathing the poisonous gas given off !
phewweee ...
The pan closet was invented around 1750, the pan would seal in
unplesant smells, but they were difficult to keep clean.
Early toilet bowls were painted cast iron and had no flange. These
discharged into a separate chamber and then into the cesspit or
sewer. The metal rusted and the seals leaked.
Because the valve was unreliable, there had to be an overflow.
Although the parts were in a wooden case, the toilet did smell.
Toilets Romans
Medieval Tudor
Georgian
Victorians
Cesspit
London's Drains
Thomas Crapper
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