St Mary Spital Analysis - 1610 Words

In moving from singular case studies to evaluating the data in a wider context, details were learned about the daily life of Medieval London and the relationship between migrating and living in an urban environment reflects on health. The consistency in the recording of data allowed for minimal variation in results over the observation of the 5387 individuals. The detailed inclusion of data will allow for future comparison between data sets and there is a possibility to evaluate grave goods in conjunction with stable isotope analysis to evaluate migration and how individuals viewed themselves. Bioarchaeological Study on Health After the introduction and the exhaustive results, the aim of the monograph turns to placing the St Mary Spital†¦show more content†¦2012, 268). Today clinical studies have proven air pollution causes lower birth weight, growth retardation and malformations, particularly in soft tissue (Connell et al. 2012, 268). Many women in urban centres would have spent long times in areas of higher air pollution especially due to the low ventilation in houses and rooms, such as the kitchen. These occupation and living conditions can have substantial effects on health and by taking a wider socio-cultural, environmental and historical context (Swales 2013, 319-320) the link between these and health can be examined. Another of the important links between the environment and health, is the cause of the appearance of mass burial pits at St Mary Spital. The occurrence of mass burials in every phase of the cemetery leads to the conclusion that something was going on (Connell et al. 2012, 227) if there wasn’t enough burial space to burry people individually. The first three phases of the cemetery correlate with twenty one famines documented in the 12th and 13th centuries (Connell et al. 2012, 228-229). Whether there was exaggeration in these records or not, there were still regularly occurring poor harvests and resulting famines. Famines of specific years can be matched up to periods of burial, such as the first period, dating to the