Casualty 1900s
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Casualty 1900s is a British hospital drama spin-off miniseries, broadcast by the BBC
.
It plunges the viewer into the Receiving Room - a similar concept to today's Accident and Emergency
- of The London Hospital
deep in the teeming East End
. The drama is shot with the pace and action of its modern day counterpart and namesake, Casualty
, but every case and character is based on cases, characters and events taken from the actual hospital records, nurse's Ward Diaries and intimate memoirs. Casualty 1909, like its preceding series, is an unbroken experience of life with pioneering doctors and nurses a hundred years ago amongst the desperately poor.
It began with a single episode of Casualty 1906, followed by three episodes of Casualty 1907, and six episodes of Casualty 1909.
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.
of the liver, aged just 15. Driven mad by cravings and nightmares, his path crosses with Ada with unexpected results.
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.
commits to performing a dangerous experiment on himself.
catches fire, bringing in scores of injured children, and the staff struggle to avert tragedy.
, predominately Chloroform
and Ether
, the first standardised use of Spinal anesthesia, and the growing need for trained Anesthetists. No electronical equipment means doctors have to physically check a patents pulse
during surgery. CPR
is largely based on the Silvester Method in which a patents 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 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 he must work with.
. After the initial broadcast of each episode, they were repeated four days afterwards but only in certain areas.
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
.
February 2011 Saw the series broadcast on BBC Entertainment in Europe, South Africa, U.A.E & Israel as London Hospital.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
.
It plunges the viewer into the Receiving Room - a similar concept to today's Accident and Emergency
Emergency department
An emergency department , also known as accident & emergency , emergency room , emergency ward , or casualty department is a medical treatment facility specialising in acute care of patients who present without prior appointment, either by their own means or by ambulance...
- of The London Hospital
Royal London Hospital
The Royal London Hospital was founded in September 1740 and was originally named The London Infirmary. The name changed to The London Hospital in 1748 and then to The Royal London Hospital on its 250th anniversary in 1990. The first patients were treated at a house in Featherstone Street,...
deep in the teeming East End
East End of London
The East End of London, also known simply as the East End, is the area of London, England, United Kingdom, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames. Although not defined by universally accepted formal boundaries, the River Lea can be considered another boundary...
. The drama is shot with the pace and action of its modern day counterpart and namesake, Casualty
Casualty (TV series)
Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
, but every case and character is based on cases, characters and events taken from the actual hospital records, nurse's Ward Diaries and intimate memoirs. Casualty 1909, like its preceding series, is an unbroken experience of life with pioneering doctors and nurses a hundred years ago amongst the desperately poor.
It began with a single episode of Casualty 1906, followed by three episodes of Casualty 1907, and six episodes of Casualty 1909.
Episode one
Nurse Ada Russell has to decide whether or not to take the job of Ward SisterSibling
Siblings are people who share at least one parent. A male sibling is called a brother; and a female sibling is called a sister. In most societies throughout the world, siblings usually grow up together and spend a good deal of their childhood socializing with one another...
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
Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays, in the range 10 nm to 400 nm, and energies from 3 eV to 124 eV...
, to treat skin disease caused by unsanitary living conditions in the East End
East End of London
The East End of London, also known simply as the East End, is the area of London, England, United Kingdom, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames. Although not defined by universally accepted formal boundaries, the River Lea can be considered another boundary...
. Queen Alexandra
Alexandra of Denmark
Alexandra of Denmark was the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom...
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 cirrhosisCirrhosis
Cirrhosis is a consequence of chronic liver disease characterized by replacement of liver tissue by fibrosis, scar tissue and regenerative nodules , leading to loss of liver function...
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 HollandSydney Holland, 2nd Viscount Knutsford
Sydney George Holland, 2nd Viscount Knutsford was a British barrister and peer.-Biography:Knutsford was the eldest twin son of the Conservative politician Henry Thurstan Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford, and his wife Elizabeth Margaret Hibbert. His grandfather was the physician and travel writer...
launches an inspired campaign to raise money. The cost of building the modern city is revealed when workers on the new Rotherhithe Tunnel
Rotherhithe Tunnel
The Rotherhithe Tunnel is a road tunnel crossing beneath the River Thames in East London. It connects the Ratcliff district of Limehouse in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets north of the river to Rotherhithe in the London Borough of Southwark south of the river. It is designated as the A101...
are admitted with agonising diver's bends. Ethel, working in the receiving room, contracts scarlet fever
Scarlet fever
Scarlet fever is a disease caused by exotoxin released by Streptococcus pyogenes. Once a major cause of death, it is now effectively treated with antibiotics...
from a patient.
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.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.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.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 HeadHenry Head
Sir Henry Head, FRS was an English neurologist who conducted pioneering work into the somatosensory system and sensory nerves. Much of this work was conducted on himself, in collaboration with the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers, by severing and reconnecting sensory nerves and mapping how sensation...
commits to performing a dangerous experiment on himself.
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.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 sweatshopSweatshop
Sweatshop is a negatively connoted term for any working environment considered to be unacceptably difficult or dangerous. Sweatshop workers often work long hours for very low pay, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage. Child labour laws may be violated. Sweatshops may have...
catches fire, bringing in scores of injured children, and the staff struggle to avert tragedy.
Medicine as portrayed in Casualty 1900s
Casualty 1900s portrays the use of early AnesthesiaAnesthesia
Anesthesia, or anaesthesia , traditionally meant the condition of having sensation blocked or temporarily taken away...
, predominately Chloroform
Chloroform
Chloroform is an organic compound with formula CHCl3. It is one of the four chloromethanes. The colorless, sweet-smelling, dense liquid is a trihalomethane, and is considered somewhat hazardous...
and Ether
Diethyl ether
Diethyl ether, also known as ethyl ether, simply ether, or ethoxyethane, is an organic compound in the ether class with the formula . It is a colorless, highly volatile flammable liquid with a characteristic odor...
, the first standardised use of Spinal anesthesia, and the growing need for trained Anesthetists. No electronical equipment means doctors have to physically check a patents pulse
Pulse
In medicine, one's pulse represents the tactile arterial palpation of the heartbeat by trained fingertips. The pulse may be palpated in any place that allows an artery to be compressed against a bone, such as at the neck , at the wrist , behind the knee , on the inside of the elbow , and near the...
during surgery. CPR
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is an emergency procedure which is performed in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person in cardiac arrest. It is indicated in those who are unresponsive...
is largely based on the Silvester Method in which a patents arms are raised above their head and then back down in an effort to stimulate muscles.
With Penicillin
Penicillin
Penicillin is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi. They include penicillin G, procaine penicillin, benzathine penicillin, and penicillin V....
still undiscovered, infections such as Erysipelas
Erysipelas
Erysipelas is an acute streptococcus bacterial infection of the deep epidermis with lymphatic spread.-Risk factors:...
are largely incurable. Emphasis is placed on keeping wards and operating theatres clean.
The hospital is shown to have an X-ray room complete with X-ray machine. At the time protection against radiation
Radiation
In physics, radiation is a process in which energetic particles or energetic waves travel through a medium or space. There are two distinct types of radiation; ionizing and non-ionizing...
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
Radiology
Radiology is a medical specialty that employs the use of imaging to both diagnose and treat disease visualized within the human body. Radiologists use an array of imaging technologies to diagnose or treat diseases...
and is shown with burns
Radiation burn
A radiation burn is damage to the skin or other biological tissue caused by exposure to radio frequency energy or ionizing radiation.The most common type of radiation burn is a sunburn caused by UV radiation. High exposure to X-rays during diagnostic medical imaging or radiotherapy can also result...
to both hands due to the unsafe levels he must work with.
Broadcast
Casualty 1907 was broadcast on BBC OneBBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
. After the initial broadcast of each episode, they were repeated four days afterwards but only in certain areas.
| Episode | Channel | Broadcast Date | Viewer avg. | Share | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One | BBC One BBC One BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution... |
30 March 2008 | 6.7 million | 27% | |
| Two | BBC One | 6 April 2008 | 5.3 million | 22% | |
| Three | BBC One | 13 April 2008 | 3.5 million | 14% | |
Casualty 1909 was broadcast on Sunday nights through June and July 2009 at 9pm on BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
and - a first for the Casualty 1900s series - BBC HD
BBC HD
BBC HD is a high-definition television network provided by the BBC. The service was initially run as a trial from 15 May 2006 until becoming a full service on 1 December 2007...
.
February 2011 Saw the series broadcast on BBC Entertainment in Europe, South Africa, U.A.E & Israel as London Hospital.
| Episode | Broadcast date | Channels | Viewer avg. | Share | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One | 14 June 2009 | BBC One BBC One BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution... & BBC HD BBC HD BBC HD is a high-definition television network provided by the BBC. The service was initially run as a trial from 15 May 2006 until becoming a full service on 1 December 2007... |
3.5 million | 16% | |
| Two | 21 June 2009 | BBC One & BBC HD | 3.1 million | 13% | |
| Three | 28 June 2009 | BBC One & BBC HD | 3.1 million | 13% | |
| Four | 5 July 2009 | BBC One & BBC HD | 3.3 million | 14% | |
| Five | 12 July 2009 | BBC One & BBC HD | 2.9 million | 12% | |
| Six | 19 July 2009 | BBC One & BBC HD | 3.3 million | 15% | |
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.Casualty 1906
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Casualty 1907
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Main characters
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