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.
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 agonizing diver's bends. Ethel, working in the receiving room, contracts scarlet fever from a patient.