London's Forgotten Banana Nuisance

Death by banana skin.

“London is in the throes of an epidemic which is daily claiming victims, north, south, east, and west, and is already becoming known as the new kind of yellow fever.”

So ran an item in the Leominster News, 10 August 1906. The problem was banana skins. London was becarpeted in yellow slip-hazards. People were getting hurt. I’ve even found accounts of deat…