The initial shock of this strange place having begun to wear off, you begin to note things that at first did not attract your attention. The sheer filth of the streets appalls you. Everywhere there seems to be refuse, garbage, human and animal excrement. And then you note for the first time the large numbers of animals in the streets-pigs eating the garbage, insects attracted to the excrement, dogs tearing at bones.

XREF: Echoes known descriptions of 19th-century urban squalor (London, Paris) and the scavenger ecology of pre-sanitation cities.

XREF: Connects to urban sanitation history and the rise of public hygiene movements in the Victorian era.

Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order a…, loc. 167