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Toilet, South Wall Street
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"This flush toilet is one of two shared by the 51 people who live in this slum. The other is an outdoor non-flush toilet shared by 14 people, 4 families. This toilet pictured is used by 37 people in 7 families."Fifty-one people, twenty-five under the age of 16, living in 8 buildings share two toilets and 4 water hydrants in the South Wall Street neighborhood of Natchez.
1966
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WHi 99058
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