... things: * bad air * bad water * swamps * sewage * debris and a lack of personal cleanliness. As places such as Rome could not avoid some of these conditions unless something was physically done to prevent it, the government implemented the first public health scheme. Bringing fresh water in from the country with aqueducts, having public baths, fountains and latrines. This was a breakthrough for public health, a great improvement from previous times. The wealthy benefited more from the new public health systems than those from the lower classes, and most slaves, because the facilities were not readily available to them. Rome had a vast empire, and had to employ a huge army to control it. Soldiers were very costly to train, they had a pension scheme, and if they died, their family would get the money anyway. So it was in the government's best interests to keep their soldiers ...

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