{"id":14826,"date":"2023-04-06T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=14826"},"modified":"2023-04-01T18:44:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T18:44:54","slug":"white-phosphorus-misadventures-16-phosphorus-fanny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=14826","title":{"rendered":"White phosphorus misadventures #16 Phosphorus Fanny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13557\" src=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/p4-300x296.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/p4-300x296.png 300w, http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/p4.png 322w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This misadventure, another suicide comes from the\u00a0<strong>Wakefield and West Riding Herald of 15th November 1902.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fanny Beck obviously didn&#8217;t like life that much in Leicester as as school mistress and took a multitude of poisonous substances including phosphorus and match heads, which would have contained phosphorus given that the sale of those containing the substance was still legal at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Locked up in an asylum after downing the cocktail, she died just a couple of days later. Times were obviously much harder than today yet the obtainable ease of being able to buy this chemical cheaply sadly offered a way out for many who could not cope.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It would take another 61 years before rat poison containing P4 was banned in the UK.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/phosfanny.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14827\" src=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/phosfanny-300x227.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/phosfanny-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/phosfanny.png 627w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This misadventure, another suicide comes from the\u00a0Wakefield and West Riding Herald of 15th November 1902.\u00a0 Fanny Beck obviously didn&#8217;t like life that much in Leicester as as school mistress and took a multitude of poisonous substances including phosphorus and match &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=14826\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15033,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826\/revisions\/15033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}