A NOVEL “SILVER LINING"

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 237, 21 June 1926, Page 7

A NOVEL “SILVER LINING"

HOSPITAL LIFE TO-DAY.

“Every cloud.” it is said, "has its silver lining." Many hospital patients, doubtless, fail to see it, but there will shortly be an added "attraction” at the (Wellington Public Hospital, if the Amateur Radio Society meets with the success it deserves. The society is aiming to have listening-in sets available for those who are stricken with illness, and hopes to see the time when head ’phones will form part and parcel of a patient's ordinary equipment. The value of music in helping to effect cures in certain diseases is well known, and not only will there he music, but the patient can "tune-in" to lectures or anything else that may be "on the air.” Most hospitals are equipped with gramophones, but it often happens that _al•Jiongh nine patients out of ten mar like t'o listen to a gramophone for half an hour or so, the tenth patient does not want it. With radio, there will be no such contretemps: the patient can take it or leave it. Head 'phones, too, by providing news from the outside world, take the patient out of himself, so io speak, and tend to dissipate the feeling every sick person has that he is a burden to the rest of the community. Anyone desirous of helping along this excellent idea may leava rutwcrlptions st this office.