[Sca-cooks] Child safing

[Ron Carnegie]

You don't actually see it much in the 18th and 19th century either.  That is one of those historic myths.  

Ranald de Balinhard who works in the 18th century

>From: Bronwynmgn at aol.com
>Date: 2008/08/17 Sun AM 10:44:43 EDT
>To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Child safing

>In a message dated 8/16/2008 6:06:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
>adamantius1 at verizon.net writes:
>
><<While I'm sure  
>people burn themselves and even catch  fire over their stoves today,  
>sometimes even burning the house down,  but I don't think we see quite  
>as many coroner's reports stating that  the cause of death was "falling  
>into the fire" as we used to in the  18th and 19th centuries, and  
>previously.>>
> 
>Considering how few people have functional fireplaces in their homes today,  
>and how comparatively rarely those are used compared with historic times, it  
>should hardly be surprising that we see far fewer reports of "death by falling 
> in the fire".  The opportunity to do so simply doesn't exist as frequently  
>as it used to.
> 
>Having had to guard an inebriated guest in our camp from falling into our  
>firepit at Pennsic this year, I was quite afraid that we might end up with a  
>perfectly period incident of the sort...An awful lot of the period reports  
>mention that either the person who died or, in the case of a child, the person  
>minding them, was drunk at the time of the incident.  Not to imply that all  of 
>them were, of course.
> 
>Brangwayna Morgan
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