Feces and Urine. – People would have a chamber pot to poop and urinate. The pot in many cases would be kept in the same room as where everyone slept. Usually under the bed. It would be dumped out once a day onto the street or in the backyard. Due to this kind of sanitation, along with their garbage being thrown on the street or in a pile in the back of the home, it attracted rats and other vermin. Those vermin had fleas and carried disease. Since the homes were not sealed effectively many times people lived with rats and vermin in their home and would get the fleas that these pests had, which in turn spread the diseases.