Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

Sex workers in Bern, Switzerland, being punished by collecting night-soil in the streets. Engraving by C. Warren, ca. 1790.

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