night-tub

Updated: May 27, 2025

Under the skylights, which serve for windows, and at the foot of the staircase are two pig-pens; at the end of the apartment are the privies, and in one corner a night-tub, which completes the poisoning of the atmosphere already vitiated by this crowded mass of human beings.

Hippolyte Taine - The French Revolution - Volume 3