Bathroom Habits/ Waste Removal
Effects of Poor Hygiene
Cleanliness/ Fragrences
Noble Hygiene
Dental Hygiene
100
This is where bowel movements took place for the poor and middle class.
What is a bucket?
100
Poor hygiene was partially respoible for this plague that killed half the population of Europe.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
100
Civilians bathed this many times a year.
What is twice?
100
Nobility, rather than civilians, had these waste containers.
What are flush toilets?
100
Fillings were used from silver and this type of scraping.
What is lead?
200
This is where buckets filled with feces would be stored.
What is a closet?
200
Poor hygiene affected the Queen of England; therefore, she almost died from this disease.
What is smallpox?
200
Civilians heated their bathing water with this.
What is a fire place?
200
Nobody else except the nobility had this type of water. (it does not walk)
What is running water?
200
When the amount of human teeth for implants were low, they used teeth from animals or from this, instead.
What are dead people?
300
This illegal process is what the poor had to do to dispose of fecal matter?
What is disposing through a window or door?
300
This aspect of London caused disease to spread very easily.
What is a crowded city?
300
This is where bathing took place.
What is an old wooden tub?
300
The rich of Elizabethan times did this when their house was dirty.
What is "moved houses"?
300
When rinsing teeth, they used these two materials.
What are honey and burnt salt?
400
The flush toilet was invented in this year; however, only the rich could use the flush toilet. The poor and middle class still had to use a bucket.
What is 1596?
400
Besides the Bubonic Plague, four out of these seven other diseases of Elizabethan times were caused by poor hygiene.
What are smallpox, malaria, stones, syphilis, dysentery, influenza, and measles
400
The poor civilians of Elizabethan times bathed here.
What are rivers and ponds?
400
Elizabeth had one of these, so she was always clean.
What is a portable bath tub?
400
In Elizabethan times, people could treat bad breath with water and with these other three things.
What are vinegar, mints, and wine?
500
Even though civilians could not bathe frequently, they still could do this as part of their morning routine.
What is washing hands and face?
500
Sailors obtained this disease from poor hygiene.
What is scurvy?
500
People thought this wind brought bad smells, but that this other wind was very pleasant.
What are the south wind and the east wind?
500
Elizabeth had piped water in this amount of palaces.
What are four palaces?
500
Nowadays we use a tooth brush to clean our teeth; however, in Elizabethan times, people had to use these three materials when cleaning their teeth.
What is prumice stone, brick, and coral?
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