HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH AS A CONCRETION OF UTILLITAS PUBLICA IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENTS IN ROME
HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH AS A CONCRETION OF UTILLITAS PUBLICA IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENTS IN ROME

Summary/Abstract: We cannot deny the concern of the Romans in regulating different manifestations of the environment in the urban context that affected the daily life of the citizens, such as those rules referring to the burial or cremation of corpses within the city or the regulation of the baths or thermal baths, which required a correct supply of water resources, among other examples. In order to understand this whole legal framework of environmental protection within cities, it is necessary to focus on the concept of salubritas, which refers to the conditions of hygiene and public health necessary for the proper human development of the inhabitants of cities. In this sense, it can be stated conclusively that salubritas publica, in our opinion, should be considered as a particular concretisation of the general notion of utillitas publica.

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