Peoples health, Action to improve peoples health
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- Created on: 15-04-21 09:27
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- Action to improve peoples health (medieval)
- Efforts in towns to deal with problems
- York 1301:King Edward I ordered the authorities in York to clear filth from its streets
- Bristol in the 1300s: The town council passed laws to try and combat miasma-dungheaps, lepers and prostitutes were ordered to be moved outside of town
- Public health in London 1348-1500
- 1385: A warden was appointed to check whether London's streets and the banks of the Thames were clear of 'filth and dunghills'
- 1430: The Mayor of London organised the replacement and extension of the pipes that supplied London with fresh spring water
- Approaches to public health in the monasteries
- Monasteries needed clean water because...
- It was blessed and used in baptisms and church services
- Used to wash silver cups after Mass and sacred linen alter cloths
- Provided drinking and washing water as well as baths for cit townspeople who were treated by the monks and nuns
- In the 13th century, the church set the highest standards of hygiene
- Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire had an infirmary for the sick, a block of latrines, pure spring water from the hills piped into the kitchens and washing areas
- Monasteries needed clean water because...
- Exeter's medieval water supplies
- 1180: Church records show that monks at the cathedral had piped water into the town from a spring in the hills. Spring water was for holy rituals, day to day washing and cooking
- 1340s: Church paid for construction of a lengthy underground passage to carry the lead pipe. It was finished in 1349 just as Black Death reached Exeter
- 1450s: Town employed its own full time plumber. Henry VI visited Exeter in 1451, great conduit was chosen as the centre for celebrations
- Efforts in towns to deal with problems
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