Early Modern Britain

Healthy Town Life: 

• Wealthy ate new foods (eg: potatoes and peppers)
• Wealthy payed for water piped to houses 
• Poor still got water from conduit
• Servants wash wealthy clothes
• Rubbish still collected by rakers 

Unhealthy Town Life 

• Wealthy still ate mostly meat
• New drinks (coffee) contained sugar = rotting teeth and obesity
• Towns crowded so disease spread easier 
• Badly built homes = damp and cold 
• Smoke pollutes air = lung problems
• Animals wandered streets = dirt, disease and waste  
• Dirty water/ cellar as waste leaked into it.