On the ironies of modern sanitation transitions: Beattie & Boileau discuss Cantonese market gardening, nightsoil waste, and tensions of health & hygiene in 19th century colonial Australasia. Worth a read.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/883380

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Project MUSE - ‘Cultivated with great carefulness’: Chinese Market Gardening, Urban Food Supplies and Public Health in Australasia, <small class="caps">1860s–1950s</small>