Each house or family approached managing trash with their own method.
In Schools
The old washroom incinerator fit this same mold. In schools and public buildings, some incinerators were used for handling sanitary waste. This represented the perspective of the time regarding hygiene. Hygiene meant eliminating waste completely. A container hid it, but fire destroyed it. At the time, this seemed a cleaner approach to people, especially where anything related to privacy or embarrassment was concerned.
Now this seems rather harsh. At the time, it was simply a practical solution.
