Nurses, patients, and doctors are all in favour of the system. Doctors find it—_labour-saving, too, as when they are making their rounds they can tell from the reù light outside the ward just where a nurse is in attendance. Nurses like the idea, too, not only to save their feet, but for quick action. If they need a sister or a doctor urgently they can ring the patient's bell and speak through the loud-speaker, without having to go outside the ward.
When the red light system outside the rooms was first introduced the show that the patient required idea was hailed as "the last word."
The new scheme makes the pré- vious idea seem elementary.
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