Hygiene in Caversiva

When it comes to **hygiene in Caversiva**, many modern hygienic items and facilities are safe from the Drastian Empire's failed attempts to destroy their slave races' sciences and cultures.

## Bathing

Hammams and bathrooms are either commonplace or combined together, even in commoners' homes. Also, everybody on this place love to bathe often, plus they have access to clean water since they have water treatment technologies saved from the Drastian Empire's futile attempts to have all slave races' cultures and technology destroyed permanently.

Unlike 18th century Europe (where they believed that opening the skin pores with hot water could bring diseases), people can take a bath regularly as it's good for everyone's health. They won't have to use bodily filth. Thanks to the valiant autochthons, they managed to save the running water concepts from the Drastians' failed culture/science eradication program so that people won't have to travel to closest sources to get water.

Full body baths are very common and are done for all ages. Each morning, a person after taking a bath would rinse their face and hands with a cloth using a basin, a sponge and a soap. By law, people are forbidden to take a bath on a local lake or a stream, in which it would be filled with some aggressive animal species, and may cause contamination. Shampoos and conditioners are also widely available.

With bathing widely available to all of Caversivans (combined with waste treatment and more of its efficient methods), this will make diseases harder to catch, even vermin, fleas and lice are nearing extinction due to its disease-bringing properties. Herbs and flowers are also utilized to provide pleasant odors and deter pests. Upper and middle classes can bathe in tubs with hot water while other middle class folk and so many commoners can swim in public baths.

Running water, wells and rivers gave people more convenience, and bathing required less labour than in medieval times. Hot water access is also provided. Bathing on wells and rivers is not permitted due to grime and scum that can cause diseases. Since bathing is advanced further, peasants are able to take a bath.

## Child Labor

Child labor is no longer a thing in Caversiva due to its harsh nature, but only part-time jobs and mini-managers' summer camps are safe and legal.

## Clothing

Clothing in Caversiva is widely cheap and available. Modern undergarments are too available and cheap. Peasants are also able to buy new sets of clothing.

## Contraception

Condoms (like Durex and Purell) are available for everyone to be able to have birth control and STD prevention.

## Cosmetics

Cosmetics in Caversiva are natural and organic (and no longer are made of lead) for safety reasons.

## Delousing

Combs have more finer teeth so that users can remove dirt and lice while combing their hair. Delousing groups are also formed every Saturday for all peasants to do.

## Dentistry

Dentists are no tooth pullers, and teeth wouldn't be allowed to rot at all since fluorides, detergents and abrasives are now common sight, even toothpastes are made possible for all to use. Dentistry is now more advanced than ever when autochthons' indigenous ways of dentistry are mixed with all the enslaved races' dentistry techniques, and toothaches are now a very rare thing.

Chamomile and figs are even cultivated in and around Caversiva. Dentists are now more common than ever, and dentures and implants are even made from animal and human teeth, which are now available for everyone to afford, even poor people who sold their loose teeth can be sold for cheaper dentures. Only bamboo toothpicks are available due to their lessons on forest conservation.

Toothbrushes are also available, and some can have bristles made out of small twigs of hazel trees. Sometimes, they would have to rub a piece of wool or cotton over their teeth and rinse their mouths with mouthwashes. People can also mix salt and sage together to form a paste to freshen breath and whiten teeth. Caversivan sugarcanes taste much sweeter than Earth sugarcanes, yet they could kill the harmful bacteria that create tooth enamel-destroying acids, making cavities more rarer.

Stone-ground bread made with Caversivan ingredients now have rare chances of wearing down teeth. Thanks to anesthesia used by indigenous Caversivans, teeth were worked on without any pain at all.

## Diseases

Back at the time when the Drastians built slaves' tenements on the early days, diseases from their enslaved races ran rampart, but when the Great Caversivan War ended, their tenements improved a lot to prevent diseases with beautiful styles just like the RMS *Titanic*'s own first class cabins and better furniture, especially improved amenities.

## Ear Cleaning

Cotton buds are widely available to everybody as well.

## Food Safety

With forks, knives and spoons readily available, people are able to eat without any worries of contamination. The diet of Caversivan peasants vary country by country, but it can mostly consistly of what they grow on their farms - beans, grains, vegetables, onions and fruits. With water sources being safe from contamination and with advanced plumbing, the soil used to grow food and the water used to prepare meals are 100% cleaner.

Thanks to refrigeration, fresh vegetables are made possible during the winter, and even grains and root vegetables that they stored would not be able to either rod or infested with vermin. People are more careful enough so they can avoid fungi that may poison grains. Meat is also available for the masses because of the abundance of ranches and animal farms (and despite not having factory farming).

Peasants are required by law to have at least two per one animal species so they can raise for animal products, meat and poultry, and they could even dry the meat with salt to prevent decaying (or they could just freeze it). If the crops failed and the weather was poor, many peasants now have foraging guidebooks to help them survive.

## Hospitals

Hospitals are modernized, yet can have an almost-same purpose as homeless shelters since disadvantaged people like orphans and poor elders can have meals, shelter, and free medical attention. New strict policies are shown to ensure that healthy people who needed a place to sleep won't be placed right beside sick people with contagious diseases.

## Laundry

Schäffer's washing machines, simple crank-operated washing machines and other 18th/19th century washing machines are everywhere, and are cheaply and widely available for so many to buy. Water pumps, sinks and water boilers really made laundry a bit more easier. Peasants who don't have washing machines on the other hand can have laundromats.

## Lice Control

Anti-lice shampoos (such as pyrethrum extract-contained shampoos) are widely available. Home remedies regarding lice removal are also widely available. Nobles won't have to shave their heads, so it's by choice that they can get simple haircuts and/or wash elaborate powdered wigs every day.

## Life Expectancy

Purell and modern medicine, along with Caversivan indigenous medicine, helped Caversivans, autochthon or former slave, to have longer life expectancies, and even their lessons about avoiding industrial pollution.

## Medicine

With advanced knowledge of illnesses, hygiene is often made more effective than ever before. Humorism is also virtually non-existent due to the Drastians' failure to remove all traces of all their enslaved races' cultural and scientific databases. People are also able to eat more fruits than ever since it's proven that it won't actually produce lice on their own bodies, because they knew that better waste management and bathing technology breakthroughs from Caversivan indigenous folks can bring about an ultimate victory for all sapient species against those attracting parasites.

With an abundant understanding about the connection between filth, infestation and sickness, almost all Caversivans are now safer from parasites and diseases, and are on the verge of a complete eradication of almost all parasites and diseases. What they kept things about the old-fashioned humorism however is that they knew about blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm, which can now be analyzed instead for human identification purposes.

## Menstrual Care

Tampons, menstrual caps and sanitary napkins are available. They even carried scented flowers and/or herbs to mask any odor.

## Mirrors

Mirrors are now available for everybody to purchase, and are made of normal glass and/or reflective plastic instead of lead-backed glass and/or polished metal. They are easy to see a clear image. There are mirrors, big and small. Many men in Caversiva could go to a barber for a weekly shave, even peasants would do by their choice, so that made sure that many villages in Caversiva are total beard towns, just as so many can have a choice.

## Nails

Nail salons do exist in and around Caversiva.

## Parasitism

Parasites are now on the verge of extinction by former enslaved races in Caversiva, thanks to their help from the autochthons. They knew that parasites were used as Drastian weapons, so the autochthons made parasiticides. In fact, living with parasites in Caversiva would be an ultrarare occurrence, thanks to better herbal remedies.

Many ineffective remedies (such as spreading glue on a slice of bread and sticking a candle in the middle, burning chamomile seeds and inhaling its smoke, holding infected limbs over steaming water, pouring bitter medicine into ears and/or getting rid of lice nits by washing hair with saltwater from the seas) are outlawed. Sniffling flowers were at least not outlawed.

## Perfumery

Every after bath (since everybody has now access to clean water), they apply perfume. A person would rub the perfume all over themselves, and even comb it into their hair. Perfume burners and perfume fountains are distributed for the masses.

## Pest Control

Many bugs such as mosquitos, flies and cockroaches are easy to be repelled due to the Drastian Empire's failure to erase traces of their slave races' scientific and cultural databases they captured. Lice and fleas are too on the verge of extinction because of advanced pest control.

## Plumbing

Modern plumbing is safe from the Drastians' failed plots to remove all traces of enslaved races' cultural and scientific databases.

## Public Healthcare

Public healthcare is now free because of modern and Caversivan indigenous medicine are widely available. Frameworks to have medical doctors, proper sewage, trash disposal and clean drinking water, combined with the poor peoples' social security acts on all nations, gave life in Caversiva a more fairer shot.

## Sewage

Modern sanitation is kept in Caversiva. Simply walking through the streets of a Caversivan settlement would mean going ankle deep in flowers and fluffy clouds, and to make things better, modern sewers are built on every corner of Caversiva, even in rural areas. Thanks to modern sewage treatment plants, dysentery, typhoid, influenza and cholera are all but eradicated.

## Shavings

Men and women can shave their body hairs since they admitted that shaving can be done as carefully as possible. Plucking hairs and depilatory creams are common too. Depilatory creams are not allowed to be made out of limestone and/or arsenic due to poisoning abilities.

## Sleeping

Memory foam mattresses are available for all to sleep, showing that bugs, fleas, lice and rats (specifically bedbugs) won't be able to bite anyone who were sleeping. People can sleep in pajamas during warm nights while formal clothes are to be worn during cool/cold nights. Also, they mixed scented flowers and herbs - such as mint, chamomile, and lavender - in with their own mattresses.

Linen sheets and woolen blankets are made available for everyone as well.

## Soaps

Thanks to the autochthons, the Leblanc-Solvay process made soaps in Caversiva become plentiful for everyone to buy in stores. Fragrant soap bars are now more common and cheaper for all to buy.

## Syphilis

Syphilis is now curable with penicillin since mercury is not for medical purposes anymore due to its dangerous effects. Even then, contraception and gender-equal healthcare would make spreading of syphilis harder.

## Toiletry

Modern flush toilets are retained for so many Caversivans (even poorer ones) to have. This type is more common and each house has two or three toilets per each bathroom. Meanwhile, chamber pots and outhouses are used only if there's a plumbing malfunction, but a new law is advised that emptying chamber pots must be done on separate trash cans.

Each outhouse also has connections with sewers and septic tanks. Bidet showers and add-on bidets are also commonplace for most toilets in Caversiva, as they're now available for the masses. Not to mention, toilet papers are retained as they all come in rolls of toilet paper. Many palace complexes are required to have lots of sanitation facilities. Bathrooms too must be plentiful in every palace complex.

New laws are imposed to ensure that sewage wouldn't reach drinking water sources so that it wouldn't be able to spread diseases. Many Caversivans have access to flush toilets. Waste buckets too are available for those who couldn't afford chamber pots, as long as they have plastic garbage bags and a proper disposal facility.

## Toxicology

Toxicology advances before the Drastian invasions are well-preserved by the autochthons' best efforts. Arsenic is not allowed to be used.

## Utensils

Eating utensils are made widely available in forms of delicate silverware.

## Water Sources

Sewage and garbage aren't allowed to contaminate any and at all water sources by law, and it's all thanks to modern technology that's saved from the Drastians.

## Wigs

Powdered wigs are now popular once more for the middle and upper class since Caversiva has an 18th century feel, and this time, they are washable/combable, even bug repellent ingredients are used to douse them in with. Pomades are even made with these same ingredients to prevent insects from biting their hairs.