Summary AQA GCSE History:Medicine- Middle Aged Medicine
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Middle aged medicine
Public health in mediaeval towns
Unhygienic Hygienic
Water As towns grew, systems couldn't Mediaeval towns took water from local
cope with the increased demand for springs, wells or rivers; some Roman
water; rivers were often used to systems survived and still worked well
remove sewage and other waste. while towns like Exeter used new tech with
pipes made of wood or lead.
Sewage Towns were usually dirty with only a Most towns and some private houses had
few paved streets; cesspits could privies (outside toilets) with cesspits to
overflow onto roads and into rivers. collect the sewage; people left money in
their wills to build public privies for the
town’s citizens.
Rubbish In poorer areas, streets stank and Mediaeval town councils passed laws
were often littered with toilet waste encouraging people to keep the streets in
and household rubbish. front of their houses clean and tidy.
Tradesman’s Leather tanning used dangerous Town councils and local craft guilds tried
waste smelly chemicals while meat to encourage tradesmen to keep certain
butchers dumped the waste blood areas, and keep them clean.
and guts into the rivers.
It was difficult to keep mediaeval towns clean for a number of reasons:
- Town populations grew and public health facilities couldn’t cope
- Rivers were used for drinking water, for transport and to remove waste
- People had no knowledge of germs and their link to disease and infection.
They thought that disease was spread by ‘bad air’ (miasma), so they kept
removing unpleasant smells.
Some places had better public health than many towns. Wealthy families could
afford better living conditions. But it was in the religious buildings such as
monasteries, abbeys and nunneries that the largest number of people enjoyed good
public health conditions.
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