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How healthy were slaves in Rome?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

While there are no statistics on the health of the slaves in ancient Rome, it can be assumed that they were as healthy as the rest of the population. The public slaves would more than likely be subject to diseases spread by crowding and communal living and they would be the ones most likely to catch whatever was "going around". The domestic slaves were generally well cared for if they fell ill, as they were not only important to the running of the household, they were the primary caregivers if anyone in the family got sick. The rural slaves were perhaps the healthiest of all, as they were away from the urban crowding, pollutions and diseases that these conditions bred.

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