[frereubu]

This is a great podcast about how Victorian London built a huge sewer system to deal with the vast amount of human waste generated by one of the biggest cities in the world: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gjcm

I was reminded of it by the mention of people who collected the waste from cess pits, which is also in the podcast - it was transported outside the city and used for fertiliser.

[vram22]

Only partly related (London), but reminds of that striking image called Gin Lane, by Hogarth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane

[rrr_oh_man]

Bourbon street, 10pm vs 2:30am