Gong farmer: The people whose job it was to remove human effluent from privies and cesspits in Tudor England. Operating at night to avoid the public, they were generally shunned.
Gong farmer: The people whose job it was to remove human effluent from privies and cesspits in Tudor England. Operating at night to avoid the public, they were generally shunned.
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One notable incident occurred in 1326, when a gong-farmer named Richard the Raker fell into a cesspit whose ceiling had rotted, and drowned while collecting feces.
Possibly the worst death on the job ever?