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Show I Engineering in Hospitals. Practically all the important In firmaries aud hospitals in England have their own electric generating stations, and the size of the installs tions would surprise the majority of engineers. The equipment has to be designed with unusual care, owing to the special conditions which prevail in hospital work. Even where a pub lie supply is available, the use of an independent system is justified on account ac-count of the security which it gives against failure, of current at a critical moment. The installations are used for lighting, heating, ventilating, telephoning tele-phoning and other purposes. and many hospirals have laundries op erated electrically. One county asylum has its own private electric railway for conveying supplies from the near est railway station. |