What Was Hygiene Like In The Wild West?
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Date: 2022-12-29
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Lola
My grandpa grew up in the middle of the big one WW2 and he said he didn't see a indoor crapper of his own till highschool but the folks where he lived got creative with their out houses. some times an old sink and chamber pot with a hole in them encased in cement in the wooden part and a patio screen on a small hole on the side air it out and I think he said the crapper would also be sprayed with I think DDT. but the bottom they'd use lye and sand or saw dust anything to make it more hygienic pretty good engineering for a bunch of hay seeds in east Texas my grandpa said often if you couldn't buy something you figured out how to make it yourself like if they had no tub they'd just use a really large horse trough and the horses had I think horse feed things that they somehow water proofed I guess with clear shellac anyway they still got water I guess after every meal. but you make the best with what God gives you and never moreso than making what you need like an outhouse than buying one. oddly enough sears or monkey wards sold folding tubs and I think folding toilets too you should do a weird history deal on those that should be interesting
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My grandpa grew up in the middle of the big one WW2 and he said he didn't see a indoor crapper of his own till highschool but the folks where he lived got creative with their out houses. some times an old sink and chamber pot with a hole in them encased in cement in the wooden part and a patio screen on a small hole on the side air it out and I think he said the crapper would also be sprayed with I think DDT. but the bottom they'd use lye and sand or saw dust anything to make it more hygienic pretty good engineering for a bunch of hay seeds in east Texas my grandpa said often if you couldn't buy something you figured out how to make it yourself like if they had no tub they'd just use a really large horse trough and the horses had I think horse feed things that they somehow water proofed I guess with clear shellac anyway they still got water I guess after every meal. but you make the best with what God gives you and never moreso than making what you need like an outhouse than buying one. oddly enough sears or monkey wards sold folding tubs and I think folding toilets too you should do a weird history deal on those that should be interesting
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Healing+Grace
That's why they looked dirty in movies. Oh out houses. I can remember those. My parent's had one for a few years when I was a kid. I used to call it a shit house because it was smelly. Oh I know what an out house is. My grand parents had a toilet that didn't flush. It was like an indoor out house. You had to put stuff down it to get rid of the smell. Later on my parent's bought an actual toilet that flushed finally in the late 1970s. But from the late 1940s till early 1970s they used an out house built by Natives. That's all I knew about it. This was at the lake and we roughed it. We bathed in the lake with a bar of soap to get clean. Or I would get a bath in a wash bucket inside. All the old furniture was taken out to the lake. So that my mom could get new furniture. I imagine all that vintage stuff was worth something but I'll never know? In the city we had modern conveniences.
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That's why they looked dirty in movies. Oh out houses. I can remember those. My parent's had one for a few years when I was a kid. I used to call it a shit house because it was smelly. Oh I know what an out house is. My grand parents had a toilet that didn't flush. It was like an indoor out house. You had to put stuff down it to get rid of the smell. Later on my parent's bought an actual toilet that flushed finally in the late 1970s. But from the late 1940s till early 1970s they used an out house built by Natives. That's all I knew about it. This was at the lake and we roughed it. We bathed in the lake with a bar of soap to get clean. Or I would get a bath in a wash bucket inside. All the old furniture was taken out to the lake. So that my mom could get new furniture. I imagine all that vintage stuff was worth something but I'll never know? In the city we had modern conveniences.
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KaosBC
the ditches along the streets in my town (population 1200 then) were full of feces and piss as everyone just dumped the indoor waste buckets out front in the street, this was eventually covered and a regular road built, but every house had to have a holding tank put in (no leach field) and the tank itself would leach into the back yards, leading to grand backyard gardens, the fruits of which were sold along the street, people from miles around would come to town to buy vegetables and fruit. mmm. anyway still to this day when digging deep along the streets or drains you can find the dark layer of black yick where the old crap ditches were. My town (now population 750) still has no modern sanitary sewer system, everyone gets the tanks pumped every few months, and those that don't have shitty backyards
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the ditches along the streets in my town (population 1200 then) were full of feces and piss as everyone just dumped the indoor waste buckets out front in the street, this was eventually covered and a regular road built, but every house had to have a holding tank put in (no leach field) and the tank itself would leach into the back yards, leading to grand backyard gardens, the fruits of which were sold along the street, people from miles around would come to town to buy vegetables and fruit. mmm. anyway still to this day when digging deep along the streets or drains you can find the dark layer of black yick where the old crap ditches were. My town (now population 750) still has no modern sanitary sewer system, everyone gets the tanks pumped every few months, and those that don't have shitty backyards
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Ryan
Theres a reason outhouses are situated away from homesIn the Army the rule was to dig a latrine hole no closer than 100 meters from anywhere with food because that was considered farther than the flies near the human output would fly. Disease spreads from the flies that are feeding on human waste to then land on your food and feed on that, transferring any bad stuff with it.
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Theres a reason outhouses are situated away from homesIn the Army the rule was to dig a latrine hole no closer than 100 meters from anywhere with food because that was considered farther than the flies near the human output would fly. Disease spreads from the flies that are feeding on human waste to then land on your food and feed on that, transferring any bad stuff with it.
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David
I believed everything you said up until the thing about the $500 fine for spitting. When you come up with something that ridiculous, it makes everything else you say suspect at best. What do you do, just make things up then find some picture to go along with whatever you say? Hint: $500 back then would about two years pay.
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I believed everything you said up until the thing about the $500 fine for spitting. When you come up with something that ridiculous, it makes everything else you say suspect at best. What do you do, just make things up then find some picture to go along with whatever you say? Hint: $500 back then would about two years pay.
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Bobby
The whole family sharing the same bath water is where the term don't throw the baby out with the bath water comes from. The baby was the last one to get washed and the water would get so dirty you couldn't see the baby in it anymore which gave rise to the warning of not to throw out the baby with the nasty ass water.
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The whole family sharing the same bath water is where the term don't throw the baby out with the bath water comes from. The baby was the last one to get washed and the water would get so dirty you couldn't see the baby in it anymore which gave rise to the warning of not to throw out the baby with the nasty ass water.
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Blaster
The thing is, that people back then just wouldnt really think that they smell bad, as the brain adapts to smells that it registers constantly and just kinda filters them out. If one of these people would timetravel to our time he would probably tell us that everyone reeks terrible of huge amount of soap.
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The thing is, that people back then just wouldnt really think that they smell bad, as the brain adapts to smells that it registers constantly and just kinda filters them out. If one of these people would timetravel to our time he would probably tell us that everyone reeks terrible of huge amount of soap.
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Wayne
In mining camps many died of syphilis. Here in Montana many died from it from catching it from women who went to the mining camps. Very rough times way back. There was no way to know what sickness you had. You just walked around feeling bad till you died.
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In mining camps many died of syphilis. Here in Montana many died from it from catching it from women who went to the mining camps. Very rough times way back. There was no way to know what sickness you had. You just walked around feeling bad till you died.
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Cactus
For pain management, patients were prone to taking a shot of whisky.
Me: one?
Or two.
Me: two?
Or maybe three.
Me: just three?
Make that four.
Me: I can go with four.
Love how it was like a conversation as I was watching
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For pain management, patients were prone to taking a shot of whisky.
Me: one?
Or two.
Me: two?
Or maybe three.
Me: just three?
Make that four.
Me: I can go with four.
Love how it was like a conversation as I was watching
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Mean
my grandparents had an outhouse in the holler of southern ohio until I was 6. I had to carry a bb gun with me because of wild dogs. I took a bath in the kitchen sink by a pump too. I would never give up the experience but would also never repeat it. lol
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my grandparents had an outhouse in the holler of southern ohio until I was 6. I had to carry a bb gun with me because of wild dogs. I took a bath in the kitchen sink by a pump too. I would never give up the experience but would also never repeat it. lol
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Renee
We are now in 2022 and water reservoirs and rivers and drying up at an alarming rate due to drought and climate changes. Food is scarce and expensive due to pandemic and inflation. Get ready for our worse life in the future.
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We are now in 2022 and water reservoirs and rivers and drying up at an alarming rate due to drought and climate changes. Food is scarce and expensive due to pandemic and inflation. Get ready for our worse life in the future.
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Robert
Alcohol does work as a pain reliever. When I hurt my back the doctors refused to give me anything until after my mri which was months later so I drank heavily but the pain actually went away It saved me from suicide.
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Alcohol does work as a pain reliever. When I hurt my back the doctors refused to give me anything until after my mri which was months later so I drank heavily but the pain actually went away It saved me from suicide.
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Wayne
ide love too see photos of wild west towns now and then. how they look maybe famous outlaws and lawmen who lived there. im from the UK but love looking at old west photos. love too go back in time
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ide love too see photos of wild west towns now and then. how they look maybe famous outlaws and lawmen who lived there. im from the UK but love looking at old west photos. love too go back in time
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John
I'd like to know were there as many stage coach robbery's as shown in current western movies? Were there as many shootings as shown? Finally did a single shot almost always kill the person shot?
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I'd like to know were there as many stage coach robbery's as shown in current western movies? Were there as many shootings as shown? Finally did a single shot almost always kill the person shot?
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jonah
I was really into wilderness survival skills for a while, and I actually tried to wash my hair with yucca. I don't know what the trick to it is but, I may as well have washed with a potato lol
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I was really into wilderness survival skills for a while, and I actually tried to wash my hair with yucca. I don't know what the trick to it is but, I may as well have washed with a potato lol
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Laurie
A family reusing the same bath over and over is where we get the term throw the baby out with the bath water because the baby was always the last to bathe and by then, the water was filthy.
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A family reusing the same bath over and over is where we get the term throw the baby out with the bath water because the baby was always the last to bathe and by then, the water was filthy.
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Daq
No kidding, after watching this I had to go take a shower. We are so blessed to have what we have! Thanks to all who developed the electrical and plumbing marvels we have today.
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No kidding, after watching this I had to go take a shower. We are so blessed to have what we have! Thanks to all who developed the electrical and plumbing marvels we have today.
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Bobby
My grandpa was born in 1935 and grew up using an outhouse and fetching water. A lot of people forget modern plumbing isnt even 100 years old. Thank god for modern day plumbing
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My grandpa was born in 1935 and grew up using an outhouse and fetching water. A lot of people forget modern plumbing isnt even 100 years old. Thank god for modern day plumbing
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Lois
How many of my brothers or sisters were on latrine detail to burn off the half 50gal barrels? It wasn't for punishment, we all did our turn. Barry Hope SGT USA retired.
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How many of my brothers or sisters were on latrine detail to burn off the half 50gal barrels? It wasn't for punishment, we all did our turn. Barry Hope SGT USA retired.
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