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Casualty 1907

Drama, Medical, History · 2008

Last aired: S1 E3, Episode 3 · 2008-04-13

Drama series using case notes, ward reports, autopsy records and diaries to create a portrait of the doctors, nurses and patients of The Royal London Hospital in 1907.

Cast

Cherie Lunghi Matron Eva Luckes

Sarah Smart Ada Russell

Nicholas Farrell Sydney Holland

David Troughton Hurry Fenwick

Tom Riley Dr. James Walton

Season 1

E1 Episode 1 2008-03-30 · 60 min Nurse Ada has to decide whether or not to take the job of Ward Sister, as it threatens to spoil her engagement to Dr James. The hospital is using a radical new technique, ultra-violet light, to treat skin disease caused by unsanitary living conditions in the East End. Queen Alexandra visits to see it.

E2 Episode 2 2008-04-06 · 60 min Probationer Ethel Bennett nurses injured docker Thomas Hooley, whose leg wounds are not healing. She clashes with ward sister Ada Russell, who is overwhelmed by the strain of running the ward, and her true feelings for fiance Dr Walton. Leader of the Blind Beggar Gang, Nobby Clark, is hospitalised with cirrhosis of the liver, aged 15. Children are dying from an epidemic of diarrhoea and vomiting sweeping through the slums. Chairman Sydney Holland calls an emergency meeting when the hospital runs out of funds and faces closure. Lord Rothschild arrives with news that plans for a Jewish hospital are going ahead, denying the Royal London vital funding.

E3 Episode 3 2008-04-13 · 60 min With the hospital facing imminent financial collapse, chairman Sydney Holland launches an inspired campaign to raise money. The cost of building the modern city is revealed when workers on the new Rotherhithe Tunnel are admitted with agonising diver's bends. Ethel, working in the receiving room, contracts scarlet fever from a patient.

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