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Home fires
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2016 8:07 am
by Northern Lass
Anyone watching this
I just love it
It is full of individual stories everyone seems to have a part in it.
The atmosphere feeling that it gives makes you feel for an hour you are
there with them.
Rationing, and the threat of the germans invading was there with them every waking day.
We are so lucky.
Re: Home fires
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2016 9:50 am
by Rob
I haven't seen the series as we don't get commercial television here in The Netherlands however i can imagine how the threat of a German invasion could affect your everday behaviourial patterns.The story of the Womens Institute at the outbreak of World War 2 is in itself an astonishing story about the strength that these women find in each other. Am i a Feminist?
Re: Home fires
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 1:45 pm
by BC Wench
I love this programme, nice and easy watching. The clothes, especially the cardigans and jumpers are to die for, mmmm lovely.
I just wish Pat would give her husband a swipe, he's such an obnoxious man, but shows what a good part he is playing.
You definitely are a feminist Rob
Re: Home fires
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 6:47 pm
by sparkstopper
I too enjoy watching this series; (having lived through it)...But I wish the writers
would get their facts right...mouth to mouth resuscitation was not practiced until
the late 50s but it didn't detract from the enjoyment. (of the show not the 'mouth to mouth) !!!!!
Re: Home fires
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 8:26 am
by SRD
sparkstopper wrote:I too enjoy watching this series; (having lived through it)...But I wish the writers
would get their facts right...mouth to mouth resuscitation was not practiced until
the late 50s but it didn't detract from the enjoyment. (of the show not the 'mouth to mouth) !!!!!
I was sure I'd read a novel, written before the 20th century, in which mouth to mouth was used so I went agoogling:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16749887 wrote:In Britain, the great boost to performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for the "suddenly apparently dead" came from William Tossach's 1744 documentation of his own successful case, and then from promotion by John Fothergill and other enthusiasts. Some civic authorities on the Continent were exhorting citizens to employ it from as early as the mid-18th century. The first humane society was founded in Amsterdam in 1767 and initially promoted expired air ventilation (EAV) by the mouth-to-mouth method. Other humane societies were soon established throughout Europe, especially in maritime cities with frequent drownings. The founding of London's humane society in 1774, initially known as "The Institute," was followed by earnest efforts to promote mouth-to-mouth EAV in England, and soon after in Scotland, but not until the 1780s in North America. Disenchantment with the mouth-to-mouth method as less desirable (for various reasons) led to decline in its general use. In 1782, what later became The Royal Humane Society in London changed its expressed preference for artificial ventilation by mouth-to-mouth to manual artificial ventilation using inflating bellows, although mouth-to-mouth was a method of resuscitation which could be attempted by any rescuer. The need to apply artificial ventilation immediately was not really recognised before John Hunter's recommendation to London's Humane Society in 1776. Charles Kite spelt out clearly the principles of resuscitation in 1787-8, though he gave some priority to warming. It seems that only in the latter part of the 18th century was the importance of airway obstruction recognised, largely due to Edmund Goodwyn.
But it wasn't until 1956 that Safar & Elam showed scientifically that it was preferable to the previously used chest depression & arm lifting technique that they showed to be ineffective. That research led to the acceptance of Mouth to Mouth being officially recognised as the correct method to use.