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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clavis" data-source="post: 4324890" data-attributes="member: 31898">Some other medieval urban unpleasantness...There are no flush toilets, so you have to use a chamberpot. It gets emptied every morning, usually by dumping it into the street. Walking under upper-story windows in the early morning morning is asking for trouble... In any event there will be a lot of human and animal waste around.There are dogs, cats, and even pigs roaming everywhere. The pigs help clean up garbage and waste by eating it.A large percentage of the inns will be infested with bedbugs. In a port town, there will be rats and roaches everywhere. Ratcather was an important medieval occupation.There will be beggers, many of them diseased, some of them deliberately disfigured to make them look more pathetic.Having water to wash or cook with means somebody has to fetch it from a nearby river, well, or a fountain (in wealthier cities). There will be a lot people on the street in the morning who are just carrying water.</blockquote>