Casualty 1900s

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Casualty 1900s
Casualty 1906 title.png
Casualty 1906 title sequence
Also known asCasualty 1906
Genre Medical drama
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of episodes1
Production
Running time60 minutes
Original release
Network BBC One
Release3 December 2006 (2006-12-03)
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Casualty 1907
Casualty 1900s
Casualty 1907 title.jpg
Casualty 1907 title sequence
Also known asCasualty 1907
Genre Medical drama
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of episodes3
Production
Running time60 minutes
Original release
Network BBC One
Release30 March (2008-03-30) –
17 April 2008 (2008-04-17)
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Casualty 1906 (Pilot)
Casualty 1909
Casualty 1900s
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Casualty 1909 title sequence
Also known asCasualty 1909
Genre Medical drama
Directed byBryn Higgins (eps 1–3); Mark Brozel (eps 4–6)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducerBryn Higgins
Running time58 Minutes
Production companyStone City Films
Original release
Network BBC One
BBC HD
Release14 June (2009-06-14) –
19 July 2009 (2009-07-19)
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Casualty 1907

Casualty 1900s, broadcast in the U.S. as London Hospital, is a British hospital drama inspired by but otherwise unrelated to BBC One drama Casualty .

Contents

It places the viewer in the Receiving Room of the London Hospital, in London's East End. The drama is shot with the pace and action of its modern-day counterpart A&E. Every case and character is based on real cases, characters and events taken from the hospital records, nurses' ward diaries, and memoirs.

It began with a single episode of Casualty 1906, followed by three episodes of Casualty 1907, and six episodes of Casualty 1909. [1]

Episodes

Casualty 1907

Episode one

Nurse Ada Russell has to decide whether or not to take the job of Ward Sister of Wellington ward, as it threatens to spoil her engagement to Dr James Walton. 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 with her sister the dowager empress of Russia to see the hospital. [2]

Episode two

Probationer Ethel Bennett goes through a night of rising tension as she nurses Thomas Hooley, the injured docker whose leg wounds are not healing. She clashes with ward sister Ada Russell, who is overwhelmed by the strain of running of a large, busy ward and worried about her true feelings for her fiancé. Nobby Clark, leader of the violent Blind Beggar Gang, is hospitalised with alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, aged just 15. Driven mad by cravings and nightmares, his path crosses with Ada with unexpected results. [3]

Episode three

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. [4]

Casualty 1909

Episode one

Revolution grips the East End as an explosion brings fears of a bomb, and Ethel Bennett and Dr Millais Culpin struggle to control the angry victims. When detectives arrive, Matron Luckes and Chairman Sydney Holland fear the hospital is in danger of becoming an extension of Scotland Yard. Meanwhile, Sister Ada Russell battles with irascible star surgeon Mr Henry Dean, whose addiction to cocaine is an open secret. And ambitious young Dr Ingrams faces catastrophe in the operating theatre. [5]

Episode two

A scandal brews as Nurse Goodley suspects that Mr Dean is ignoring the terrible side-effects of a new anaesthetic, and battles internally as whether she should risk everything and turn whistleblower. Sister Ada Russell copes with her first day in reception following reassignment. Nurse Bennett fears that her secret alliance with Dr Culpin has been discovered when Matron Luckes sends her into private nursing. [6]

Episode three

The strain of being 'married to the hospital' takes its toll on Sister Ada Russell, as she nears collapse. On one of the London's Jewish wards, Nurse Goodley finds herself increasingly drawn to the charismatic radical Saul Landau – but Saul has a life-threatening illness. [7]

Episode four

Sister Russell discovers the secret of probationer Nellie Bowers when she catches her sneaking out to see a mysterious young man. The London admits a woman brought in wearing pauper's clothes yet with silk underwear underneath. Meanwhile, the brilliant pioneer Dr Henry Head commits to performing a dangerous experiment on himself. [8]

Episode five

Dr Culpin is powerless to help when Ethel Bennett rushes to her dying brother in a naval hospital. Star surgeon Mr Dean faces destruction through his cocaine addiction. Sister Russell breaks the strict rules of Matron Luckes when she sneaks out of the London to help a young mother. [9]

Episode six

All the secrets burst open, as Matron Luckes clashes with Sister Russell for leaving the London to help a family in the slums, while Dr Culpin clashes with Bennett for giving up studying to be a doctor. Mr Dean, supposedly clean, returns to work in the Operating Theatre. In the dead of night a sweatshop catches fire, bringing in scores of injured children, and the staff struggle to avert tragedy. [10]

Medicine as portrayed in Casualty 1900s

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Jason Watkins in Casualty 1906

Casualty 1900s portrays the use of early anesthesia, predominately chloroform and ether, the first standardised use of spinal anesthesia, and the growing need for trained anesthetists. No electronic equipment means doctors have to physically check a patient's pulse during surgery. CPR is largely based on the Silvester Method in which a patient's arms are raised above their head and then back down in an effort to stimulate muscles.

With penicillin still undiscovered, infections such as Erysipelas are largely incurable. Emphasis is placed on keeping wards and operating theatres clean.

The effectiveness of the anti-streptococcus serum that cures Ethel's scarlet fever was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1897. [11]

The hospital is shown to have an X-ray room complete with X-ray machine. At the time protection against radiation emitted from such a machine was inadequate, little more than a thick pair of gloves was standard. Ernest Wilson, portrayed by Jason Watkins, was one of Britain's first radiologists and is shown with burns to both hands due to the unsafe levels with which he must work.

Nurse Bennett's dream of becoming a doctor meant facing a challenge, but not an impossibility. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman in Great Britain to graduate from medical school, began to practice in 1865. The London School of Medicine for Women was founded in 1874.

Broadcast

Casualty 1907 was broadcast on BBC One. After the initial broadcast of each episode, they were repeated four days afterwards but only in certain areas.

EpisodeChannelBroadcast dateViewer avg.ShareRefs
One BBC One 30 March 20086.7 million27% [2] [12]
TwoBBC One6 April 20085.3 million22% [3] [13]
ThreeBBC One13 April 20083.5 million14% [4] [14]

Casualty 1909 was broadcast on Sunday nights through June and July 2009 at 9pm on BBC One and – a first for the Casualty 1900s series – BBC HD. Episodes were repeated on BBC Four a couple of months after their original broadcast. February 2011 saw the series broadcast on BBC Entertainment in Europe, South Africa, U.A.E & Israel as London Hospital.

EpisodeBroadcast dateChannelsViewer avg.ShareRefs
One14 June 2009 BBC One & BBC HD 3.5 million16% [2] [15]
Two21 June 2009BBC One & BBC HD3.1 million13% [3] [16]
Three28 June 2009BBC One & BBC HD3.1 million13% [4] [17]
Four5 July 2009BBC One & BBC HD3.3 million14% [8] [18]
Five12 July 2009BBC One & BBC HD2.9 million12% [9] [19]
Six19 July 2009BBC One & BBC HD3.3 million15% [10] [20]

DVD release

The complete Casualty 1900s series has been released on Region 2 DVD in the UK. The DVD comprises Casualty 1906, Casualty 1907 and Casualty 1909.

Cast

Casualty 1906

Casualty 1907

Casualty 1909

Main characters

Supporting characters

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