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A key health facility was the public baths, where you could wash, swim, do exercises and have massages and, in the bigger baths go to a library listen to poetry readings and participate in debates. This range of facilities reflected the Roman belief that good health consisted in eating, cleanliness, massage, exercise and intellectual pursuits. This was exemplified in the expression 'mens sana in corpore sano' a healthy mind in a healthy body. The Romans built public baths (thermae) wherever they went. The public baths were
Another key public health facility were the public toilets.They were communal and could be in rooms without partitions or outdoors. An outdoors toilet found at Ostia (Rome's port) has three walls and the fourth side was open. Along three walls there are benches with openings which rested on top of brickwork. The toilets had their sewage. They were flushed with running water. When possible they were built near the baths so that the water from the baths could be recycled to flush them. It has been estimated that in 315 AD, the city of Rome had 144 public toilets.
Baths and toilets were of particular importance because most Roman houses had no baths or toilets. The poor who lived in the upper floors of tenements which had only had small and overcrowded rooms, and no running water, or cooking facilities. People went there only to sleep. The poor lived their lives outdoors, ate outdoors, and went to the public baths to wash and to outdoors public toilets.
The aqueducts brought clean water from the mountains.
Other public health measures were the building of sewers and draining swaps and marshes
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