Casualty 1907. Part 2.

This three-part series follows on from 'Casualty 1906' which looked at three days in the life of the London Hospital shortly after the turn of the last century. The London Hospital, based in the East End of London, was the most advanced hospital of its time and dealt with devastating poverty and illness before the advent of antibiotics and the NHS. All the events, characters and cases in the programme are based on hospital records, newspapers and personal memoirs. This second part follows night duty in the hospital, seen particularly through the eyes of the new nurses ('probationers'). Cases include alcoholic cirrhosis in a teenage boy, a paediatric ward of children with severe diarrhea and vomiting, an amputee with infected wounds, relationships between staff, the threat of closure to the hospital due to lack of funds from the wealthy Jewish population who are considering putting their funds into a Jewish hospital.