What was their sanitation and nutrition like?
Cleaning Clothing:The procedure of cleaning clothes wasn't as simple as putting them in a washing machine. If your are wealthy enough you would be able to send your clothes to the fuller which is where you take you clothes to be washed. The fuller will hang the clothes over a wooden frame and the will bleach it with burning sulphur. The it will be put in a clay pot filled with water. The way to get the clothes dry is by hanging them up outside on a line. This will also bring out any creases and it is the substitute for an iron. Then usually a slave will come to pick it up.
Bathing:The baths were used by both rich and poor. Most Roman settlements contained a public bath of some sort. The entrance fee for the baths were extremely small, around about 1/16 of a penny. This extremely low price was to ensure that no-one did not bathe because it was too expensive. Romans spent large sums of money building their baths. This was because they thought it contributed to good health. So even the sick were allowed to bath in the public baths because they thought it would help regain them into a better health.
Toilets: All houses/streets in ancient Rome had toilet as the people of ancient rome thought it was very necessary. Rome wasn't the first civilisation to have toilets but the first to allow them for everybody's use. In other civilisations only the rich had and used toilets. By around about 315 AD, it was said that Rome as a city had 144 public toilets which were flushed by clean running water. To support these toilets, the Romans also needed a effective drainage system. Many romans believed that Rome’s sewers was Rome's greatest achievement. The importance of hygiene also went as far as military hospitals which had effective sewage systems attached to them. It was quite clear that the Romans believed that an injured soldier would get back to good health quicker by staying in a hygienic environment. They got this completely correct.
Cleaning Clothing:The procedure of cleaning clothes wasn't as simple as putting them in a washing machine. If your are wealthy enough you would be able to send your clothes to the fuller which is where you take you clothes to be washed. The fuller will hang the clothes over a wooden frame and the will bleach it with burning sulphur. The it will be put in a clay pot filled with water. The way to get the clothes dry is by hanging them up outside on a line. This will also bring out any creases and it is the substitute for an iron. Then usually a slave will come to pick it up.
Bathing:The baths were used by both rich and poor. Most Roman settlements contained a public bath of some sort. The entrance fee for the baths were extremely small, around about 1/16 of a penny. This extremely low price was to ensure that no-one did not bathe because it was too expensive. Romans spent large sums of money building their baths. This was because they thought it contributed to good health. So even the sick were allowed to bath in the public baths because they thought it would help regain them into a better health.
Toilets: All houses/streets in ancient Rome had toilet as the people of ancient rome thought it was very necessary. Rome wasn't the first civilisation to have toilets but the first to allow them for everybody's use. In other civilisations only the rich had and used toilets. By around about 315 AD, it was said that Rome as a city had 144 public toilets which were flushed by clean running water. To support these toilets, the Romans also needed a effective drainage system. Many romans believed that Rome’s sewers was Rome's greatest achievement. The importance of hygiene also went as far as military hospitals which had effective sewage systems attached to them. It was quite clear that the Romans believed that an injured soldier would get back to good health quicker by staying in a hygienic environment. They got this completely correct.