Ko zabolijo nosnice. Razmišljanje o straniščih in smradu v dolgem 19. stoletju
When the nostrils start aching. Ruminations about lavatories and bad odour in the long-continued 19th century

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this treatise is part of the history of odours focusing on the presentation of the catastrophic sanitary conditions in towns of the long-lasting 19th century. Particularly on the example of the town Ljubljana it reveals the image of exceedingly untidy lavatories with a "free wall", which main characteristics was an offensive stenchand in which numerous rats were often crawling over the heaps of excrement.

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