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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1390889" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>I think we live in a too sterile world these days, kids are brought up in sterile environments and then go into child care during the day where they pick up every cold a flu that goes around but don't get much exposure to soil organisms and will often get phobias to dirt. My daughter is married to an American that was brought up in Las Vegas and he is now a germ freak, he won't move into a new apartment until my daughter has disinfected from one end to another and yet he is a grot himself but his dirt is OK. His phobia cruels any plans they have to travel and do things, just too hard work. </p><p></p><p>I grew up in Brisbane just after the war and expansion was very rapid. Early in the Pacific war it was the major staging point for US forces and a lot of army camps were turned into suburbs with no sealed roads and no sewerage systems. We had outhouses for toilets and the "Dunny man" came early in the morning once a week to change the can and yes it was called "night soil". We played in the back yard amongst the oveflowing "grey water" household sump that never soaked in and we were perfectly healthy. I never new exactly what happened to the night soil but suspect it was composted and used on market gardens.</p><p></p><p>Dad always tells of where he grew up in Sydney near Botany Bay and the flats behind the beach were all Chinese market gardens or "Chows" as he called them and how whenever the old sewerage pipes burst the Chows would be there scooping up the raw sewerage and carrying it back on the two buckets on the stick over their shoulders for their market gardens. They had no trouble selling their produce direct to the public, it was highly sought after, I guess an early form of organic farming.</p><p></p><p>Look now most large cities have sewerage treatment plants that treat the waste water to different levels, some for farm use but also to the next level that then goes back and mixes with our drinking water. It is happening now, what we don't know don't hurt us.</p><p></p><p>Our kids just have to toughen up a bit. Farm kids are probably an exception but city kids are just Pansies.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1390889, member: 16453"] I think we live in a too sterile world these days, kids are brought up in sterile environments and then go into child care during the day where they pick up every cold a flu that goes around but don't get much exposure to soil organisms and will often get phobias to dirt. My daughter is married to an American that was brought up in Las Vegas and he is now a germ freak, he won't move into a new apartment until my daughter has disinfected from one end to another and yet he is a grot himself but his dirt is OK. His phobia cruels any plans they have to travel and do things, just too hard work. I grew up in Brisbane just after the war and expansion was very rapid. Early in the Pacific war it was the major staging point for US forces and a lot of army camps were turned into suburbs with no sealed roads and no sewerage systems. We had outhouses for toilets and the "Dunny man" came early in the morning once a week to change the can and yes it was called "night soil". We played in the back yard amongst the oveflowing "grey water" household sump that never soaked in and we were perfectly healthy. I never new exactly what happened to the night soil but suspect it was composted and used on market gardens. Dad always tells of where he grew up in Sydney near Botany Bay and the flats behind the beach were all Chinese market gardens or "Chows" as he called them and how whenever the old sewerage pipes burst the Chows would be there scooping up the raw sewerage and carrying it back on the two buckets on the stick over their shoulders for their market gardens. They had no trouble selling their produce direct to the public, it was highly sought after, I guess an early form of organic farming. Look now most large cities have sewerage treatment plants that treat the waste water to different levels, some for farm use but also to the next level that then goes back and mixes with our drinking water. It is happening now, what we don't know don't hurt us. Our kids just have to toughen up a bit. Farm kids are probably an exception but city kids are just Pansies. Ken [/QUOTE]
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