Medieval public health

• the laissez faires government did employ two types of people: Gongfarmers and Mudrakers. They also banned butchers in the city of London
• How the church helped: set up 160 hospitals in C12-13, which acted as a place to recover; set up university schools of medicine
• How the church hindered progress: insisted upon Galen's work; disapproved scientific thinking; didn't allow dissection.
• Government improved public health the most as the brough in a new law and employed people to keep the streets clean.
• Public health is the prevention of illness OR keeping the public safe.
• fatalism 


  the belief that your life is not in your own hands

  'if god wants me to live, then i will'

  meant people did not take responsibility for themselves
• Why were conditions so bad?

  • few regulations
  • cesspits were rarely cleared because it cost money
  • animals were slaughtered in the city
  • industry and housing were mixed, tightly
  • food could not be kept fresh
  • lack of scientific knowledge
  • drinking and cleaning water was mixed with sewage
  • the streets were filthy