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Casualty 1907

Casualty 1907 is a BBC TV 3-part historical medical drama set in 1907 at The London Hospital in the East End of London.

Each one-hour episode of Casualty 1907 uses case notes, ward reports, autopsy records and diaries to bring actual doctors, nurses and patients at The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, vividly back to life.

Casualty 1907 is a follow on series based on the the pilot episode Casualty 1906, aired in December 2006.

Episodes

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.

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 fiance. 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.

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.

Broadcast

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

Episode	Original Airdate	Repeat Airdate
One	30 March 2008 BBC One	4 April 2008 BBC One (except Yorks & Lincs)
Two	6 April 2008 BBC One	10 April 2008 BBC One (London, Wales only)
Three	13 April 2008 BBC One	17 April 2008 BBC One