Bathroom (Chiwan)

There are only two bathrooms in this household, one downstairs and one upstairs. The toilet facilities were a lot less glamorous and adopted an eastern squatting style.

Known as the jamban, it was a simple raised concrete platform with a hole. Lime (kapir) would be poured into the hole, and cut strips of paper known as chor chua were used to clean oneself. One had to balance themselves, and aim well!

There was no sewerage system until the 1960s. Before that, a bucket system was adopted. A man would walk through the front of the house to collect the days wastage. He would bring a clean bucket, clear the contents of the jamban and take the old bucket away to be cleaned.