Pants: Well in that case we’ll definitely take it. After the fall of the Roman Empire urban societies began to leave their urban homes and move back to a more rural way of life and more “traditional” disposal methods.īlackadder: Um, well, what we are talking about in privy terms is the latest in front wall fresh air orifices combined with a wide capacity gutter installation below.
The middle ages seen a big step backwards in waste management. Not so lucky for the builder though I guess. When the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire held a party in the Palace of Efurt, the floor of the main hall broke many of the dinner guests fell into the cesspool and drowned luckily, the Emperor survived. They were frequently constructed under the floors of buildings. Romans did start to use cesspools for human waste. A common problem if you live next door to someone without a cesspool who finds it funny to just throw his crap at you.
Laws governing chamber pots (500 BC) specifically relate to fines and damages being paid to the injured party if they are caught by a “missile of mirth”. There is early Roman Law relating to ones waste, not directly relating to septic tanks or cesspools but still it shows they had a concern for the management of sewage. Effective waste management in India was probably born from necessity, if their local cuisine had the same effect on them as it does me. After the Greeks (and the Indians) came the Romans. We all know of the Greeks, in particular Knossos and its complex engineering systems but earlier evidence of drainage and cesspools can be dated back to Lothal, India at around 3700 BCE. This was fine for the moving tribes and nomads, there was loads of space and the chances of you treading in someone else’s were slim and even if you did the chances of you being bothered were slimmer but as soon as basic societies were formed we needed another way. Prior to us “digging a hole” our very early ancestors used a form of waste disposal consisting of a biological treatment via land application (we shat on the grass). Anyway, onto the origins of septic tanks. Dig a hole and bury it, like a cat. I used to have an Irish cat but it had a poo and buried itself. There you have it, the basic sewage disposal system.
And thou shalt have a shovel amongst thy weapons, and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which is come from thee.
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