What Was The Roman Sanitation And Nutrition Like?:
Romans understood to stay healthy you needed to stay clean, and be in a clean environment. Depending on the wealth of the Roman depended on their nutrition and sanitation. For example in Rome if you were poor you had to hand wash or your clothes yourself, which meant that they were reasonably clean, but germs still were on them meaning it would be easier for you to get sick. Also it took up lots of your time. As for if you were wealthy you could send your clothes to a person called a Fuller and they would wash them for you. The fuller would hang your clothes on a wooden frame and then they would bleach them with burning sulphur. After that they would be put them in a clay pot filled with water. They would dry the clothes by hanging them up on a line. This would also insure that there would be no creases making the clothe look neat. Your slave would pick them up and bring them home to you. Most Romans didn't have this luxury.
In rome they had lot's of public baths, the entrance fee for the baths were extremely small, because they wanted rich and poor people to be able to bath regularly, trying to keep everyone as hygienic as possible so that no knew diseases started. Romans spent a lot of money building their baths. This was because they thought keeping clean would insure better health. Even sick people were allowed to bath in the public baths because they thought it would help them get better if they were cleaner. Romans cleaned themselves by rubbing their skin with oil and then they would scrape it off with a tool called a strigil. The richer Romans even had the luxury to use soap, and Roman women also used razors, pumice stone, tweezers and depilatory creams to remove unwanted body hair.
Romans had very good drainage system. Many romans believed that Rome’s sewers were one of Rome's greatest achievements. All houses and streets in ancient Rome had toilets. Rome wasn't the first civilisation to have toilets but it was the first civilisation to allow everybody to use them. In all the other civilisations only the rich were allowed to use the toilets. Around 315 AD, Rome had about 144 public toilets which were flushed by clean running water. Romans even made military hospitals which had effective sewage systems attached to them. For romans believed that an injured soldier would get better quicker if they were staying in a hygienic environment.
As for the nutrition that the Romans had, really depended on how wealthy you were. Adults usually ate the leftovers from the night before like olives, capers, eggs, some cheese, bread, honey while children ate milk and bread. Then later in the after noon when they ate again people would have grains, soups, milk, cheese, fresh or dried fruit, olives, porridge, bread and sometimes fat. The richest only ever got meat, and fish was a luxury to Romans and very few got it.
In rome they had lot's of public baths, the entrance fee for the baths were extremely small, because they wanted rich and poor people to be able to bath regularly, trying to keep everyone as hygienic as possible so that no knew diseases started. Romans spent a lot of money building their baths. This was because they thought keeping clean would insure better health. Even sick people were allowed to bath in the public baths because they thought it would help them get better if they were cleaner. Romans cleaned themselves by rubbing their skin with oil and then they would scrape it off with a tool called a strigil. The richer Romans even had the luxury to use soap, and Roman women also used razors, pumice stone, tweezers and depilatory creams to remove unwanted body hair.
Romans had very good drainage system. Many romans believed that Rome’s sewers were one of Rome's greatest achievements. All houses and streets in ancient Rome had toilets. Rome wasn't the first civilisation to have toilets but it was the first civilisation to allow everybody to use them. In all the other civilisations only the rich were allowed to use the toilets. Around 315 AD, Rome had about 144 public toilets which were flushed by clean running water. Romans even made military hospitals which had effective sewage systems attached to them. For romans believed that an injured soldier would get better quicker if they were staying in a hygienic environment.
As for the nutrition that the Romans had, really depended on how wealthy you were. Adults usually ate the leftovers from the night before like olives, capers, eggs, some cheese, bread, honey while children ate milk and bread. Then later in the after noon when they ate again people would have grains, soups, milk, cheese, fresh or dried fruit, olives, porridge, bread and sometimes fat. The richest only ever got meat, and fish was a luxury to Romans and very few got it.