If waste is not deposited in a Privy, how then is it disposed of? This is the question, the answer to which may help explain the presence of privies in some places and not in others. 

The pig is an excellent scavenger of human waste - and it was the decision by early communities to ban pigs from inner city areas that then led to the legal requirements that privies be constructed and ultimately that they be cleaned, some in the dead of night, and the wast finally be placed to rest at some secondary designated location. 

If there are pigs about, privies are not a necessity. If a privy is found on a plantation, near slave quarters, one might ask, "Were there pigs about this place?" - so when it is suggested that privies, where constructed, might indicate Religious preference that could indeed be one expination.

Diane Dismukes