Now there's an MA for someone!  Does bacterial deterioration relate to
different physical environments ie deterioration in Canada vs tropical
Australia vs Colorado?

Gordon Grimwade

Yungaburra,
Queensland, Australia 4872.
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance - Confucius

> From: Carl Barna <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:17:49 -0600
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Safety issues [was tongue / lip test]
>
> Just out of curiosity --
>
> Is there some period of elapsed time when bacterial concerns at privies
> become of no consequence?
>
> For example, are 100 or 200 year-old privies of no concern healthwise?
>
> Carl Barna
> Regional Historian
> Colorado State Office