Outbreak in Poplar!

Everyone’s on high alert when cases of the highly contagious disease diphtheria are reported...

- HANNAH DAVIES, ELAINE REILLY, VICTORIA WILSON

As Call the Midwife returns, it’s 1965 and shock waves ripple through Poplar when news comes that Sir Winston Churchill has died. But there’s little time for the nuns and midwives of Nonnatus House to mourn as they deal with a major outbreak of diphtheria.

Nurse Crane and Lucille (Leonie Elliott) visit the local homeless shelter to treat Dena, who’s due to give birth any day. Appalled by the conditions Dena and her young son, Terry, are living in, Nurse Crane manages to find them a new home.