Early modern

• Quarantine laws for the plague-1665

  100,000 died
• Increase in population meant cramped housing,

  After the great fire of london, people began rebuilding houses with stone rather than woods, and made streets wider
• Henry VII- banned slaughterhouses within the city walls
• Henry VIII gave towns the power to build sewers
• 1690 - the banning of keeping pigs in dwelling houses
• River known as shitebrook where waste was dumped