Medicine and Treatment
- Created by: rhiannonlouise
- Created on: 03-04-15 12:45
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After Romans left (410AD) PH got worse
- human/animal filth covered streets
- sewers overflowed (caused spread of excrement and stench)
- dirty butchers (threw out blood and animal waste)
- pigs and chickens roamed the streets
Why did it get worse?
- barbarian tribes allowed queducts and public baths to decay/break
- taxes were not spent on PH
- attitudes to PH were poor (people did not care about hygiene)
- no skilled engineers to bring out improvements
Some improvement in PH in towns after c1350
- water storage pits/cesspools started to be built out of stone
- people fined for littering or urinating on streets
- dirty butchers banned
- some towns employed rackers to sweep streets
Why was the Churhc powerful…
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