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. 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.
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