Nightman
Gong farmer (also gongfermor, gongfermour, gong-fayer, gong-fower or gong scourer) was a term that entered use in Tudor England to describe someone who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits. As the work was considered unclean and off-putting to the public, gong farmers were only allowed to work at night, hence they were sometimes known as nightmen. The waste they collected, known as night soil, had to be taken outside the city or town boundary or to official dumps for disposal.
Fewer and fewer cesspits needed to be dug out as more modern sewage disposal systems, such as pail closets and water closets, became increasingly widespread in 19th-century England. The job of emptying cesspits today is usually carried out mechanically using suction, by specialised tankers called vacuum trucks.
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- 2021-04-27T00:00:00.000000Z
Chapters
- 2016-02-26T00:00:00.000000Z
Neither Do I
- 2016-04-15T00:00:00.000000Z
This War
- 2015-11-20T00:00:00.000000Z
Don't You Know
- 2015-11-06T00:00:00.000000Z
The Night
- 2015-10-23T00:00:00.000000Z
Nice & Clean
- 2015-09-25T00:00:00.000000Z
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