Would it be plausible to have an old manor house, a couple hundred years old, that, in 1858 is being used as a boarding/finishing school, have working bathrooms, or would they still be hauling water from the kitchen?
2006-09-01 09:43:44 · 3 answers · asked by elknutswife 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
In residential homes they used chamber-pots stored beneath the bed or in a chest next to the bed. Bath tubs were also used but there was no bathroom - the tubs were in the bedroom.
There were bathhouses for institions, but the chamber pot was used there too.
2006-09-01 09:46:27 · answer #1 · answered by childrenofthecorn 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no.
Indoor plumbing was in it's infancy. Thomas Crapper (no, I am not kidding. That was his name...) developed a type of flushing toilet in 1872. He perfected the cistern - the tank that holds the water for flushing and made flushing quieter. The American soldiers stationed in England during World War I who returned to the US used his name as a euphemism for the toilet.
But, before that... way way waaayyyy back, King Minos of Crete owned the world's first flushing water closet over 2800 years ago.
2006-09-01 09:56:10 · answer #2 · answered by ICG 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 1850s sounds about right. The white house got its bathtub then.
2006-09-01 09:47:02 · answer #3 · answered by Sharon C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋