We’ve read about the awful plight of waste disposal as cities grew large before modern sewer systems were installed. A reader asked, “Before sewer systems, did people in England really toss their poop into the streets?” The answer is complicated.
Now, to be clear, generalizing about what a large and diverse group of people did over a millennium time span is extremely dodgy business, and we’re not saying that some Medieval Britons didn’t sometimes…
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