Meanings of earth-closet in английском

The inventor of the earth-closet, Rev.

But you quaint little people with your bonnets and breeches, your horse buggies, your archaic dialect and your earth-closet privies, you enrich our lives.

In the circular published by the Earth-Closet Company, the following directions are given:

It is absurd to talk of making "guano" or any concentrated fertilizer out of the material from earth-closets.

The Board of Health officially announced that this was the cause of the sickness, and recommended the removal of the earth-closets.