RADIO IN HOSPITAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16539, 5 January 1928, Page 11

RADIO IN HOSPITAL

RECEIVER INSTALLED WITH 2000 HEADPHONES LONDON, Nov. 18. What is described as one of the most remarkable wireless receiving in-, stallations yet invented has been fitted up at the Lambeth Hospital by the Mareoniphone Co. Its total capacity is 2000 headphones, and 80 loudspeakers; its running cost is approximately 9d a day. H ' Automatically it switches over from London to Daventry and Daventry to London, choosing its programmes throughout the day in accordance with, a pre-arranged scheme; The set consists of seventeen tubes, and a feature is that no high and low tension batteries are necessary because the supply is obtained from motor-genera-tor sets. The installation can be used for making announcements throughout the institution. Also, when no broadcasting is taking place, gramophone records can be played for the benefit of all who are listening-in. Services in the hospital chapel and concerts in the dining-room hall can be relayed to those patients and members of the staff who are unable to be present. The total amount, of wiring exceeds 91 miles. The cost of the installation, £lsoo, was subscribed locally, mainly iir workshops. The gift was formally handed over to the hospital authorities recently,