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London was a very smelly place.There were different things that caused the smell for example the butchers would skin and gut animals and throw unwanted bits and bobs in the river [which was right by the houses] and people also put all there waste into the river. The smell in the street was very overpowering as you could imagine.

Above the smell some of the few things about cities, back then were that they were not safe places to live. So most people were in danger everyday. The danger came from crowded city conditions, rabid crime in the poorest areas, (not unlike today).

In then days you had pay for a doctor, so if you could afford a doctor he would probably 'bleed' you so that the evil spirits could escape from the system of your body. Most scholars believe that being doctored in those days often caused premature death.

Infant mortality was very high; more infants died than lived. Women were always pregnant and large families were the norm. They kept having children because so many died in childhood because of all the diseases going round.

There was no such thing as a shopping mall or center, it was just the market. Ships would sale in with lots of goods and London dockworkers would straight away put the goods in the market.

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London in the 1600s was very profitable for merchants and nobility. The poor had to get by with assistance from their local parish church, which provided welfare. The streets were narrow and filled with thrown out refuse and waste water, making the city a very unsanitary place to be.

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