Sanitation, Public Health, and Hygiene in Elizabethan England

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Across
  1. 4. Bowl that the working class used as a toilet (2 words)
  2. 6. Poor often bathed in ______ since they couldn't afford bathtubs
  3. 8. Method of covering floors with rushes
  4. 9. Queen Elizabeth was thought to bathe every ____ weeks
  5. 10. Largest city in England with poor sanitation
  6. 11. Chamber pot covered with a seat used by the upper class (2 words)
  7. 12. Some nobility had underground _______ where waste was collected via chutes
  8. 15. Soap made of wood ash and lard
Down
  1. 1. London had many open ______ that often overflowed into the streets
  2. 2. Powdered _____ were wrapped in cloth and used to scrub teeth
  3. 3. Name for the stationary toilet that connected to a cesspit (3 words)
  4. 4. Soap made of olive oil used by the upper class
  5. 5. Sir John Harrington invented the first _____ toilet
  6. 7. It was considered good manners to wash ones _____ hands before meals
  7. 13. ________ was used to cover the stench of unwashed bodies
  8. 14. River in London where sewage was often emptied