The Indus Civilization c5.38

c5.38

Practically every house had its bathroom, which was always placed on the street side of the building for the convenient disposal of water; in a number of cases where a latrine was also present this lay between the bath and the street wall, obviously for the same reason. The bathrooms and latrines were sometimes on the ground-floor and sometimes on the floor above, in which case the water and fæces usually ran down a brick channel in the thickness of the wall, or, more rarely, down an open channel outside it. Both these methods are to be seen in some of the towns in Sind at the present day.