HOSPITAL RADIO
Sydney Developments
ms | il EW features in radio and hospital call systems have been provided at the recently opened King George V. Home for Mothers and Babies, Camperdown, Sydney. Amalgamated Wireless has erected equipment whereby the patients ir their beds can talk to the nurses without the latter leaving their quarters, When a mother wishes to speak to a nurse, she simply presses a button at the bedside. This operates a light at the nurses’ control station and indicates the patient’s bed number. To answer the call, the nurse replies through an ordinary telephone hand set and the patient hears her by a loud speaker which in turn acts as a microphone while the patient talks back. The speaker can be switched on if the nurse wishes to listen during the night to the patient's breathing or to learn whether she is restless. This system embraces 240 beds. For the entertainment of patients, 195 beds have been fitted with pillow phones for radio broadcast reception. A "community aerial" known as an antennaplex has also been erected to permit the inmates’ radio receivers being connected direct to one efficient welldesigned aerial.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 41
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192HOSPITAL RADIO New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 41
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