History of the Flushing Toilet: The Thunder-Box Traditional Cache
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History of the Flushing Toilet: The Thunder-Box
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One of a series of six caches placed to spread knowledge of toilets and the history of some slang!
In Australia the outhouse toilet is frequently referred to as a dunny or "thunderbox". Waste deposited in earth closets was euphemistically referred to as "nightsoil". In suburban areas not connected to the sewerage, such outhouses were not built over pits. Instead, waste was collected into large cans, or "dunny-cans", which were positioned under the toilet, to be collected by contractors (or "nightsoil collectors") hired by the local council. Collected waste matter would then be removed from the premises and disposed of elsewhere. The contractors would replace the used cans with empty, cleaned cans. Until the 1970s Brisbane relied heavily on this form of sanitation.
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