A NOVEL SCHEME

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14045, 27 April 1946, Page 2

A NOVEL SCHEME

HEAT DISTRIBUTE FOR HOSPITAL First Installation Of ic In N.Z. , H Tenders To Be Called For Work, A statement that it' was a, scheme based on the high pressure hot water steam and would be the first i" spallation of its kind i n j} 6w J" land was made by Mr L. &land advisory engineer to !,be board '&' reporting on his scheme for 'reij' 0 " lating the institution for heatimr * hot water, atU.cn the Tauranga Hospital Board The Health Department, said Mr Maudeno, had approved of the &, and specifications of the scheme J if the board desired it could 1% call tenders for the installation t or healing throughout the hospital.

He pointed out that the specifta. lions also covered buildings were not ready yet, such as \l children's ward and the proposed nurses' home. The water circulated would be of a higher temperature than ordinary boiling water, ],„ added.

Mr Mandeno expressed the opiuj 0 „ that it would be slightly cheaper and '.ess trouble if the new steam-heated sterilisers were installed in the hospital instead o? the present ones, He considered that there would lie a good sale for the present electric sterilisers in use by the hospital, Mr L. R. Wilkinson asked it tberc would be any advantage in usin? oil fuel instead of coal.

The cost cf oil, replied Mr Mandeno, was very high at the present time and from what he had learned there did not "eem to he much-pros-pect in the near future of any - big reduction. "I was thinking of the precarious situation that sometimes arises with coal supplies," remarked Mr Wilkinson. The board, said Mr Mandeno, would have to provide an oil storage tank and an air compressor, but lie added that it would not cost a great deal to provide an oil installation under the boiler at present installed in the hospital. The board decided that Mr Mandeno be given authority to call tenders immediately for the work of installing the high pressure hot water heat distribution in the hospital. "We were the first hospital to lie entirely dependent on electricity." remarked the secretary (Mr I'. Lumley) when pointing out that the installation of this scheme would be the hospital's second pioneering effort.