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inventors, scientists and public health officials supported the use of "dry earth closets", a type of dry toilet with similarities to composting toilets, although...

contractors for larger-scale disposal. Historically, this was known as the pail closet; the municipality employed workers, often known as "nightmen" (from night...

A pail closet or pail privy or dirt closet was a room used for the disposal of human excreta, under the "pail system" (or Rochdale system) of waste removal...

closet (especially in North American English usage) is an enclosed space, with a door, used for storage, particularly that of clothes. Fitted closets...

sanitation reasons. Flush toilets were also known as "water closets", as opposed to the earth closets described above. WCs first appeared in Britain in the...

sanitation systems with regards to reuse of excreta in agriculture. Dry earth closets were invented by English clergyman Henry Moule, who dedicated his life...

priest in the Church of England and inventor of the dry earth toilet, a type of pail closet. Moule, sixth son of George Moule, solicitor and banker,...

room in a large house. Closet may also refer to: Various forms of toilet, notably: Earth closet, one type of dry toilet Pail closet, several types of dry...

The Reed odourless earth closet (ROEC) is a variation on the ventilated improved pit (VIP) toilet where the pit is fully off-set from the Outhouse and...

[citation needed] Other types of pit latrines may include the Reed Odourless Earth Closet, the arborloo or treebog (very simple types of composting toilet), or...

A flush toilet (also known as a flushing toilet, water closet (WC); see also toilet names) is a toilet that disposes of human waste (principally urine...

toll house from Little Malvern, a fibreglass spire from Smethwick, an earth closet, a cruck-frame barn and a counting house. The buildings and structures...

Early versions of the "Elsan chemical closet" ("closet" meaning a small room, see water closet, WC, and earth closet) were sold at Army & Navy Stores. Their...

various forms of "earth closet" (such as the Rochdale system of municipal collection) until legislation forced their conversion to "water closet" (flush toilet)...

around his fields. Fernhill, said an official survey, had an outside earth closet, water was carried in from a well in the farmyard, washing oneself was...

court house, a second cell, a stable and an earth closet should be built. He mentioned that the earth closet and single cell lock-up from the Blanckensee...

where earth closets were made mandatory, pit systems were filled in and existing toilets were required to be rebuilt or altered. Each earth closet was fitted...

also increased his costs. Red Bluff and Glacier Rock were exposed when earth, rocks and trees were removed, again by hand, from above the line (escarpments...

a garage and storage area and includes the enclosure to the original earth closet. The Michael Gannon residence (c1888) was listed on the Queensland Heritage...

roof); a small building for a fuel store, workshop and paint store and earth closet (concrete blocks with terracotta tiles of the Marseilles pattern on the...