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London Hospital

Set in the heart of the East End amid horrific danger and poverty, when illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, measles, syphilis, diphtheria are rife, Whitechapel life tumbles through the emergency room doors daily in victims of violence, suicide, drink and drugs. Themes of funding crises, terrorist threats, medical advances, and deadly infections still resonate today, but in many ways this is a shocking and foreign world, in which relationships were not permitted between staff and some treatments seem fascinatingly remote. Through extreme hardship shines a spirit of forbearance and self-sacrifice that seems remarkable now.
IMDb 8.120084 episodes
X-Ray18+
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Episode 1
    December 2, 2006
    58min
    TV-14
    The hospital staff's caseload includes striking Jewish workers beaten up by the police, children asphyxiating from diphtheria and an incredible piece of open-heart surgery by the flamboyant Mr Hurry Fenwick. Meanwhile, emergency room Nurse Ada Russell faces a difficult dilemma when Dr James Walton asks him to marry her. Relationships are not permitted between staff in the hospital.
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  2. S1 E2 - Episode 2
    March 29, 2008
    56min
    TV-14
    The streets are teeming with trouble and gangland rivalry is rife. One of the first people to stagger through the hospital doors is leader of the Blind Beggar Boys, Nobby Clark, who has a bullet wound. Elsewhere, the Light Department at the hospital is using a radical new technique, to treat appalling cases of skin disease bought on by the cramped, unsanitary conditions in the East End.
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  3. S1 E3 - Episode 3
    April 5, 2008
    57min
    TV-14
    Probationer Ethel Bennett suffers a long night of rising tension as she nurses the injured docker whose leg wounds are not healing. On the Children's Ward, children are dying from an epidemic of diarrhea and vomiting that has swept through the slums with the hot weather. Hospital funding is low and the staff learn that things are only set to get worse.
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  4. S1 E4 - Episode 4
    April 12, 2008
    57min
    TV-14
    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]
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Content advisory
Nudityviolencealcohol usesmokingfoul language
Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Directors
Bryn Higgins
Producers
Bryn Higgins
Starring
Cherie LunghiNicholas FarrellCharity Wakefield
Studio
BBC America
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