No , she would have been diagnosed with osteoporosis after the first double fracture stopping future fractures and a long slow dibilitating illness . Not all the good old days where good in reality
I did hear Jimmy Carr, who is something of an expert on such things, say that the idea of banana skin slipping was a euphemism that originated in the yearly years of cinema as a replacement for the real-life dangers of horse deposits.
[As insurance scams go breaking and re-breaking the femur is a very dangerous tactic.]
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
The Gladishes owned the general grocer shop at the top of Tower Hamlets Street back in the 60's and on the opposite corner was a greengrocer, possibly the source of the offending banana.