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And even after sewers began transforming London… The strange toilet habits of the Victorian age did not disappear overnight. Because technology changed faster than people did. Many citizens deeply distrusted the new flushing toilet. Some believed it was unhealthy… Others feared the powerful suction might somehow pull disease into the home. A few even worried— Rather irrationally— That one could be sucked downward by the force of the flush itself. So despite modern plumbing slowly arrivi