Episode #1.4

Episode aired Apr 13, 2008

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Strapped financially, chairman Sydney Holland launches innovative fund-raising. Workers on the new Rotherhithe tunnel are admitted with agonizing diver's bend. A nurse contracts scarlet feve... Read allStrapped financially, chairman Sydney Holland launches innovative fund-raising. Workers on the new Rotherhithe tunnel are admitted with agonizing diver's bend. A nurse contracts scarlet fever at work.Strapped financially, chairman Sydney Holland launches innovative fund-raising. Workers on the new Rotherhithe tunnel are admitted with agonizing diver's bend. A nurse contracts scarlet fever at work.

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PROLOGUE: "100 years ago the London Hospital dealt with devastating disease in the East End. And then, as now, the London was the most advanced emergency hospital in Britain. 1 in 7 children died by the age of 5. Life expectancy was 45. Antibiotics and public funding by the NHS were still 40 years away. Infection was the great untreatable killer--for patients and staff. All the cases, characters and events in this film are based on hospital records, newspaper and personal memoirs."

EPILOGUE: "In a single year the London treated over 250,000 patients."