| Summary: | night Used to collect human excreta from houses which had no indoor plumbing. The original, which was in used till 1950, was a two wheeled horse-drawn vehicle and always had a lighted torch on it. See sketch. This "garbage" collection always took place after midnight. The new vehicle was a covered-in container placed on the back of a pickup truck. [see other side] [reverse] This is a sketch of the "night-cart" used for collecting human excreta in St. John's, Nfld. JH 6/72 Used I Not used Withdrawn two sided card, second side is N_14380
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