[garinda]

I watched Casualty 1908 on the BBC, which was based on the real people who either worked or were patients at the London Hospital, and the actual events that took place at the Edwardian East End, and I'm sure that under Matron's beady eye cleanliness was much more important an issue then it is now.

The weirdest thing was remebering that it was only forty years before the National Health Service was founded, and that then if you couldn't afford to pay for medicine or care, there was a high probability that you'd probably snuff it.