South Yorkshire Times, May 6th, 1944
At Denaby
Broken Leg Causes Death
That playfully threatening to “spank” his landlady’s schoolboy son he got up from his chair and fell, was revealed at a Denaby inquest on Wednesday on Allen Booth Gibson (68), a retired colliery banksman, who was admitted to the Fullerton Hospital on April 26th with a fracture sustained in his fall.
His death occurred at the hospital, on Tuesday. The Doncaster District Coroner (Mr. W. H. Carlile), recorded a verdict of “Accidental death.”
Dr. J. MacArthur of Denaby sad he found Gibson had an impacted fracture of the femur of the left leg, contusion of the left elbow and ear. Dr. MacArthur expressed the opinion that Gibson had twisted himself and had broken the “neck” of the femur before falling, and in falling had sustained an impacted fracture. Death was due to hypostatic congestion following injury.