Public Health - Y10 History Flashcards
What job do rakers do
clean the streets
What year did the black death hit
1348
What % of the population were killed by the black death
60%
What actually caused the black death
Germs transported by rats and flees
NOBODY KNEW
Give one medieval belief about the causes of the black death
God’s punishment
Miasma
Imbalence in the 4 humours
Give one unhelpful cure to the black death
Blood letting
Describe king Edward III’s reaction to the black death
He ordered authority to clean the streets
One reason why monasteries needed clean water
For mass
How did monasteries improve public health in the middle ages
Provided clean water
What were three diseases that were prevalent in medieval Britain
Dysentery
Influenza
Childbed fever
Name two people who were responsible for public health in towns
Mayor’s and alderman
Name one way London tried to improve public health after the black death
They cleaned the streets
Give one feature of religion in medieval Britain
Monestaries
Churches
Who held the most power in medieval britan
Monarchs
When does the medieval period begin and end
1250 - 1500
Give one feature of homes in the countryside during the middle ages
Thatched rooves
Wattle and daub
Give one feature of a medieval peasant’s diet
Portage
Fruit and vegetables
What did medieval peasants drink
Small bear
Water
Cider
Why were cesspits a risk to health in the medieval countryside
Leaked into water supplies
Give one feature of home in medieval towns
Thatched rooves
Tightly packed
Upper floors would just out
How did people who lived in medieval towns get there food
Market days
Why were drovers a risk to health in the medieval towns
They left animal cacrcuses
Give one way in which people in medieval towns got water
Water carriers
Conduits
What did gongfermers do
They would clean up the latrines and cesspits
What did people carry to ‘cure’ miasma
Flowers
Burned rosemary
Name three formes of the black death
Bubonic plague
Pneumonic plague
Septicemic plague
How does the black death develop
High fever
Boils over the body
Vomit blood
What did the specialist jury’s look at
Food quality
What are the four humours
Blood
Yellow bile
Black bile
Phlegm
Name two types of mills
Watermill
Windmill
What was the role of the king
Law and order
Defend
Encourage trade
What did they do for leisure
Had a drink
What is a guild
A group of people
What did each parish have
A cathedrel
What did town authorities do .1
Clean up streets
What did town authorities do 2.
Employ gongfermers and rakers
Who ran the town
Mayor and alderman
What is was the medieval toilet called
Latrine
What was the most popular religion at the time
Catholicism
One unhelpful cure to the black death
Prayer
Who didn’t believe it was there responsibility to help
The monarch
Houses were easy to heat - Helpful or hiderence
Helpful
Was not easy to ventilate - Helpful or hiderence
Hiderence
Deiseses killed animals - Helpful or hiderence
Hiderence
A good harvest led to health and comfort - Helpful or hiderence
Helpful
Peasents drank small bear - Helpful or hiderence
Both it contains little alcohol but still alcohol
Some village supplies were contaminated - Helpful or hiderence
Hiderence
Each garden had waste tip - Helpful or hiderence
Help
Cesspits contaminated water - Helpful or hiderence
Hinderance
Merchants had larger houses - Helpful or hiderence
Helpful
