What would 'scalled to death' have meant in 1690?

[DutchCrutch]

Came across this term on my ancestry hunt. One of my young ancestors death registration notes was 'scalled to death'.
Anyone any idea what this could mean?
Scalded? Scaled (as in some sort of skin affliction perhaps? If so, what could that be?).

I've been scratching my head over it for the last few hours!

scalded ?

A google search shows quite a few people using this term for scalded, may well be a 1690 typo ;)

Id be going with scalded to death (horrible)

My first thought was burned with hot water and a spelling typo/old way to say it?

Sounds like scalded. What a horrible painful death. Poor thing.

It might be too late but scold’s bridle sprung to mind.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED38723

But the middle-english-dictionary definitions of skin disease doesn't really seem to go with "scalled to death", though I suppose it could have been leprosy ( a bit more than a 'skin' disease) rather than impetigo.

Can you do a screenshot?

I'm pretty sure I've heard my Irish grandmother use this term instead of scalded.

And I know of one baby distant relative of mine who was sadly scalded to death as a child when she pulled a bucket of hot water on herself. I can imagine chores involved lots of hot water and little ones were probably in the home a lot of the time, especially in winter.

This is interesting as it mentions scurvy. That is certainly something that could lead to death, but in a young child I'd be thinking more 'scalded' - a good portion of the body, too.

I'd definitely assume scalded. Probably quite common in those days too, not much Health and Safety!

@CanadianJohn I thought that too about the 'skin affliction to death', it didn't sound right but I don't know much about the old language. It was also a young child and I had a google and apparently leprosy was really uncommon in young children, although still could be!

Unfortunately I'd take this to be scalded. Small children were at risk of falling into fires or accidentally having hot liquids spilled on them, or swallowing pins.

@Ellmau I haven't found the handwritten version yet, only the listing on my web search (I'll attach anyway). Going to have to dig deep to see if there's an image of a handwritten record somewhere.

I'm leaning more toward scalded now with it being a child so young a name wasn't listed. Poor thing ☹️

scalled

ˈskȯld

variants or scall

ˈskȯl

archaic variant of scald

It's a coal mining term - he was killed by a fall of loose material