Sentence:  David Jones had seen death on a vast and public scale but never before domestically and at close quarters. This domestic death revolted him. [...] The bowels and bladder collapsed, sheets and mattress had to be burnt at the bottom of the back garden. The body, having vulgarly shed its <WSD>ordures</WSD>, now turned into an <WSD>ordure</WSD> itself. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Dung, excrement.