The house I was born in had flush toilets in 1940. When I was working on my master’s at univ of Iowa in 1960, I visited my student friend’s homes in nearby towns and was shocked they only had outhouses.
“The house I was born in had flush toilets in 1940.”
A woman in her mid 90’s lived in an old coal company house near where I live and it only had an outhouse. I live in Western Appalachia. She never had an inside bathroom. Habit for Humanity or some like group found out and built her a bathroom with a septic tank a few years back.
I can’t imagine but she was used to it.
My wife is a horse vet and some of her clients only have well water with a hand pump. Think worse than Deliverence with a road going back to their house with two strips of gravel/mud with 16 inch ruts with high grass in the center that only a 4x4 can traverse.