Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-09-16 | Page 34 | Silent Music for Hospital Patients

Silent Music lusic for H Hospital os Patients Patient A CHICAGO concern has come forward forward for for- A ward with a silent music co contrivance contrivance con con- a- a that is designed to furnish recreation to inmates of hospitals says the Popular Science Monthly l With I this s s system stem installed in a hospital a continuous and of 01 music can be furnished be Each patient patient patient pa pa- tient may decide for himself or herself hersel whether or not to listen and if the decision is against such recreation th the tha patient is not disturbed in any manI manner man man- I ner nero Briefly stated the mechanism consists con- con of of- of ofa a phonograph attached to a telephone transmitter which in m turn is hooked up to an electrical wiring system tern tem that reaches each private room and each bed in the wards At each cacti wall outlet a watch-case watch t telephone receiver receiver receiver re re- re- re is wired in The patient desiring desiring desirIng desir desir- ing to hear the musical lifts the receiver to h his s ear