Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 26 May 1928

Scratch Has Fatal Termination.

At an inquest at Denaby, yesterday. on Harry Porter (32), of New Street. Mexborough, who died in Fullerton Hospital, Dcnaby, on Tuesday.

The widow. FJizabeth Porter, said that on May 4th her husband came home from work, and complained that ho had scratched himself the ragged edge of a tub.

She attended to the wound and later he taken to Fullerton Hospital.

Dr. G. Gardner said that it developed into a septic wound from which Porter died on May 22nd.

The jury returned verdict of “Accidental death.”