public health

• Towns


  • Close together so germs spread
  • Accidents common, horses ran over
• Monasteries


  • Isolated areas near clean water
  • Man made waterways to supply clean water
• Town leadership


  1. Few enforced

  2. Some did fine (900 modern day money)/400 men

  3. Spent taxes on war

  4. Harder to control

  5. Gov not care, laissez faire, concerned with foreign affairs and empire not home issues, competing w other countries
• Monasteries


  • Abbot willing to invest
  • Wanted to keep things holy via cleanliness
  • Only one leader, quick decisions
• Towns close together, lots happenings, harder to control and enforce every happenings
• Monasteries wanted pure water to stay holy, cleanliness for monks and nuns to represent God