[Gibbon1]

In an article on Cholera or more it's solution in London building sewers the author reposted a letter to the news paper that castigated the upper classes. The gist of it was 'You say we don't mind living in filth and stink. Assuredly we do not like it at all'

[simion314]

I would ignore cities since this is a modern thing and people were forced to live into those bad conditions, let's think about tribes and villages where you had the space to shit outside, even in cold winter the people would go outside and take a dump and not shit inside.

[Gibbon1]

The old testament says you need to do your business a quarter mile from camp. And bury it.