untenantable

Updated: June 17, 2025

There was an open cesspool within a stone's throw of the barracks, the stench from which, during the heat of the summer, may be better imagined than described. No disinfectants whatever were used, and at intervals of three days it was emptied by the crudest means imaginable, on which occasions the barracks were not only untenantable but absolutely unapproachable.

Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot - Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben