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Evening Star, Issue 3095, 20 January 1873, Page 3

The managing committee of the Hamve.l Asylum have secured the services of Mr Hpagnioletti, who has invented a clock, attached to which is a drum six inches in width ; over this dium is run a length of paper sealed to hours and minutes at the top ; the paper is ruled, and each line is nurabtved according to the room t is required to represent. Cver this paper area number of markers; these are attached to wires communicating to the vaiious wards required to be vis ted, and in each such ward a small box is fitted, and each attendant has a key of a peculiar shape, so that none but those in possession of such a key can send a signal. On the attendants entering a ward, ho or sho has only to put the key in the box and leave it in (ill the visit is completed, and on leaving the ward to take the key out. While the key is ir, theeb ctiic current is kept in action, and a register is made on the sealed paper by the marker, representing the ward visited, and by the length of the mark the length of the visit is record, d. The length of space between one mark and the next shows the length of time the attendant is getting from one ward to the other. The paper is so arranged that a given length is run off in an hour, so that the time on the paper is regulated and corresponds with the clock. The clock is set in action by the doctor from his own apartments ; it is arranged and set ready for starting, and at the proper time he can by an arrangement set it off from his own room, without having to go to the asylum. The clock is locked up in his room, and in the morning the roll of paper records all the visits of the attendants during the night, and supervision is thus second.