why it was hard to keep towns clean

Question 1

what animals had to arrive to be butchered for food?

Answer 1

cattle,sheep and geese

Question 2

what animal was the main form of transport?

Answer 2

horses

Question 3

what did animals leave in the streets

Answer 3

dung

Question 4

what was the solution for too many animals in the streets?

Answer 4

A small number of rakers were hired to clean streets, Newcastle paved the streets to make them drier and easier to clean

Question 5

what did people drop on the streets all the time?

Answer 5

waste and litter

Question 6

what did butchers throw on the streets?

Answer 6

butchery waste

Question 7

what was the solution to keep streets clean from waste and litter?

Answer 7

Laws were passed to punish waste throwing, butchers had to get rid of waste outside of city walls, public latrines were built in many towns

Question 8

why were water supplies dirty?

Answer 8

because of industrial and human waste

Question 9

what was the solution for dirty water

Answer 9

in gloucester townspeople brought fresh water to public wells through lead pipes

Question 10

why were latrines a problem

Answer 10

they were built near water supplies and would leak into them

Question 11

how were the problems of leaking latrines solved?

Answer 11

regulations introduced to build private latrines
cesspits lined with brick or stone
carts went round collecting human waste at night