Sewerage and toilet a luxury that we had to wait for a long time: ‘No more to imagine how it should have stoned here’

You can hardly imagine it anymore, but in the last century we went to the poop box or the Schijthuis. This was no more than a hole in a shelf with a bucket underneath and was often shared with several families from the street. The Volksbuurt Museum devotes an exhibition to the former bowel movement.

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