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What is a .. Night Scavenger
« on: Sunday 08 January 06 14:17 UTC (UK) »
Hi
What is a occupation "Night Scavenger" this would be around 1901,Norwich , what ever it is does not sound very nice.
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« Reply #1 on: Sunday 08 January 06 14:24 UTC (UK) »
Street cleaner

http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/s.html

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Re: What is a .. Night Scavenger
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 08 January 06 14:45 UTC (UK) »
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Street cleaner

A scavenger, yes, but a night scavenger was more likely to be someone who cleaned out the privies, during the night of course, so that genteel folk wouldn't notice ...

here is an description of privies, et al:
The World & Milwaukee Early Sanitation History - Outhouses, Privies, Scavengers & Sewers
http://www.chiptin.com/antiqibles/outhouse_privy.htm
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... Back in 16th century Britain, around 1530 the name "scavenger" came into use. A scavenger was a person employed to remove dirt and refuse from streets.  ....

Some earlier terms I've found of interest: the name for the medieval privy closet was garderobe. The individuals in those days who cleaned out the privies and cesspools were called gongfermors or gongfarmer (appeared in 1814) - a scavenger. Gong is a word (appeared in 1633) for the contents of a privy, the ordure (appeared in 1388) as the French called it. A gong-burl was the hole of a privy.

    In Stow's Surv (1633) 666 - No goungfermour shall carry any Ordure till after nine of the Clocke in the night. ...

Sometimes also called a night soilman
http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/s.html
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Night Soilman / Nightman     
Emptied cesspits, ashpits and outside toilets - "middins" - usually required to work from 9pm to 5am.See also Gong Farmer

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