People's Health Summary
- Created by: Katsy
- Created on: 31-05-18 11:37
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- People's Health (1250-1500) Period Summary
- Living Conditions
- Peasants often lived with their animals
- Streets had open sewers which attracted pests and diseases
- Most water was contaminated with waste and excretions
- People were living with dung right outside their house
- Some rural areas had fresh water running near them
- Carts that transported food were also used to move rubbish
- Poor people were forced to eat food that had already gone bad
- Carcasses were dumped in the rivers instead of being disposed of properly
- Epidemics
- People were dying from the Black Death
- Could either be: bubonic, septicemic or pneumonic
- Caused by Yersinia Pestis in the stomach of fleas
- The flea the bites people and regurgitates the bacteria back into the person's blood
- Most infections result in death
- People immediately turned to God because they thought he caused it as a punishment
- Punished themselves (whipping) so God didn't have to punish them
- Drained blood from their bodies to keep the '4 humours' in balance
- Thought bad smells caused sickness (miasma)
- Burned barrels of tar and kept sweet smelling flowers with them
- People were dying from the Black Death
- Improvements
- Laws were created to keep the streets clear
- Butchers and skinners were moved to the suburbs
- Guilds were created to check the quality of foods
- Roads were paved
- New water pipes were laid and some were extended
- New jobs were created
- Rakers were employed to clean streets
- A warden was employed to check river banks and streets for rubbish
- Temporarily closed public baths during the Black Death
- Citizens were shamed for dumping rubbish in the streets
- Living Conditions
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