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Summary Chapter 6 notes WJEC GCSE history of medicine
Chapter 6 of WJEC GCSE history of medicine notes of each era
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Developments in Public Health and WelfareMODERN
- 1345- Butches ordered to segregate areas where they butchered animals
- 1345- Fine for throwing litter in the street was increased to two shillings.
- Regulations said that cesspools had to be built 2 and a half feet away from
neighbours soil
- Not allowed cesspools next to rivers of pools
- All the sewers take waste out of town and into river
People still did bad stuff even after laws
, EARLY MODERN
- Plagues struck in 1665. The Mayor of London ordered watchmen to guard
houses to make sure the sick and their families stayed shut up.
- House owners were ordered to sweep the streets outside their homes
- Taverns and theatres were closed to stop plague spreading
- Fires were lit in the streets to cleanse the poisoned air
- No meetings of the Royal society while there’s plague
- New microscopes
- Still have wacky ways of curing stuff
- Starting to go against Galen
- Still think if you carry herbs it keeps bad air away
- Believe in God starting the plagues
1532- Henry V111 recognised the menace to health from slaughterhouses and
passed law forbidding them within cities or towns. Another law to impose tax to
build sewers
1547- Not allowed to go on toilet in courtyard of Royal Palace.
After Great Fire of London- Act to rebuild London in better regulation, uniformity
and gracefulness. New buildings, designed to limit fire destruction by making
streets wider by insisting houses were built of stone with tile or slate roofs
Followed by further acts over the next few years requiring removal of dung and
cleansing of common stairways
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