Posted by John Nichols on October 06, 2024 at 08:57:42 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot Plumbing posted by John Wilson on September 30, 2024 at 14:44:52:
Clean water was a serious issue for this time, they would have been well aware of the problems of disease, aka WH. So we have to assume that care was taken, ie boiling water for tea is an essential step to minimizing risk, eating fresh shelled peas etc.
On that basis, well water as in PP is going to be a lot safer in a statistical sense than creek water. But AR often mentions the search for water, but never at Beckfoot. It may be an oversight, but more likely he was relying on common knowledge at the time that we have lost so he can assume that readers knew how most places had water. AR tells us what is different, not what is normal.
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