In built up areas it was unhygienic to rely on cesspits and the usual arrangement was for waste to be collected in a can placed under thedunny.
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Thedunny-cans are emptied by helicopter.
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At an unknown date a section of the stream was lined with slate and a wood-frameddunnyor latrine built over it to provide toilet facilities with constant running water.
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