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beeper.
The employee, say an x-ray
technician enjoying a hockey
game at the arena, hears six
beeps on her machine. She can
push a button and hear what the
hospital wants, but can't reply
through the beeper. "it's a one
way communicator, a two way
system would cost quite a bit
more money." Mr. McKenzie
explained.
After being beeped, the hosp-
ital employee phones into the
hospital switchboard or heads to
the hospital. The beepers have to
be recharged after twenty-four
hours, so are checked out only for
the on-call period. A charging
rack and battery are kept at the
hospital, along with a generator,
the in-coder and an antenna on
the roof.
Hospital administrator Mac
Kenzie says the beepers are
working out very well. "Every-
body likes them. . .they give
people more flexibility. ...let's
them lead a normal life while on
call."
"They're not really a life
saving thing, they're a conven-
ience." The hospital's mainten-
ance staff can use them too.
Perhaps one man is out mowing
the lawn and is wanted in the
boiler room. Well, he can be
called in on the beeper. It's
simple and saves an awful lot of
running around."
Mr. MacKenzie added that the
beeper is used in Exeter and
several London and • Toronto
hospitals.
If you are at a social event or
downtown shopping and the
person beside you seems to be
making beeping noises, relax. It's
just Seaforth Community Hospital
requiring somebody's services.
In-coder.
Mrs. Lillian Matzold of the Seaforth Community Hospital staff operates the in-coder or transmitter
that lets the hospital contact employees who are wearing a beeper. All hospital employees who are on
call wear beepers and can be contacted within 10 miles of the hospital. Six beepers, which are not in
use, are recharging in front of Mrs. Matzold.
Waetcher, Mildmay won $3.
Door Prizes: Loretta Huber,
Mildmay, Mrs. Garniss, Wing-
ham, Isobel Tiffin, Lucknow and
Mrs. Simmons, Wingham.
Lucky Draws: Kim Boyd,
Gorrie, Mrs. Turner, Harriston,
Donald McInnis, Fordwich and
Mrs. Margaret Adams, Wrox-
eter.
Winners of singing trio:
Dorothy Ducklow, Ruby Fraser
and Annie Sproule, all of
Listowel,
Winner of New Years-Christ-
mas Special: Mrs. Hammer,
Listowel.
it's always nice to have time off
on a weekend or in the evening
after work. But workers in many
professions have time off with a
catch - they are "on call." If you
work at a hospital and are on call
during a weekend or the evening
hours, you're tied to your house
and your home phone. Even a ten
minute trip uptown or a quick
visit next door means that you
first have to phone the hospital
switchboard and give them a
number where you can be
reached. If a place has no phone,
you can't go there at all.
It's an inconvenience and a
headache leaving you no option
but to either develop a fascinating
home-bound hobby or find
another job.
But all that has changed at the
Seaforth Community Hospital
where a new $6,000 electronic
paging system called the
"beeper" has been in operation
since early December. Describing
the new system, Gordon Mac-
Kenzie, hospital administrator
says "Employees in the on-call
hospital departments - operating
room, radiology, x-ray, the lab
and doctors take a beeper out of
the hospital when they go on
call." Ambulance employees also
use a beeper when on call.
The beeper is an electronic
calling device, a small rectang-
ular box shape, with no wires,
plugs or aerials, that can receive
signals from a hospital based
in-coder from within ten miles of
the hospital. Seaforth Community
Hospital has ten beepers affd
when someone at the hospital
wants to reach an employee on
call, they push the numbers on
the in-coder which correspond to
the numbers on the employee's
Share the Wealth: 1-Mrs.
Atcheson, Wingham, $28; 2-Mrs.
Ed. Marsh, Wingham-$30.
$25 Special: Lyda Reidt,
Wroxeter and Lorne Fischer,
Listowel.
Jackpot. Consolation and
Bonus: Mary Dumphy, Listowel.
Regular games: Mrs. Marg-
aret Adams, Wroxeter; Ross Poll,
Wingham and Bonnie Hislop,
Wroxeter; Ed. Marsh, Wingham;
l3ea Hergott, Mildmay; Geo.
Knap, Listowel; Mrs. Atcheson,
Wingham; Mrs, Patterson, Wing-
ham and Mrs. Lorne Fischer,
Listowel; Clarence Denstedt,
Dorking and Mrs. Anderson,
Lucknow; Jack Felker, Listowel,
Mrs. Ohm, Wingham and Mrs.
Derbecker, Wingham; Mrs. And-
ersoti, Lucknow; Mrs. McLennan, e
Lochalsh; Dolly Felker, Listowel
and Ruth Sharpin, Wroxeter.
Lap Card: Mrs. Gib. Arnold,
Mildttlay.
Stand up Bingo: Mrs.
McLennan, Lochalsh and Kim
Gorrie.
Dart Game: Nantes called-Ir-
win Schlosser', Hanover and Mts.
Bill Misfit', Seaforth, and. Audrey
(Continued from Page 1)
One council member termed
such a system as "cumbersome,
ridiculous."
Another member felt that the
recommendation put "The cart
ahead of the horse."
"We're talking about
dispatching but we're dispatching
what?" he exclaimed.
All areas of the county do not
have equal fire fighting
equipment. Until fire areas are
properly defined and get equal
equipment and protection the
expense wasn't justified, he said.
The fact that few fire brigades
in the county have trucks
equipped with two-way radios
was another objection put forth.
Reeve Campbell explained that
by having one central dispatcher
municipalities in the county could
save money. The service would
not be duplicated. Three
dispatchers could be hired to man
a central telephone 24 hours a
day.
The telephone would have a
Zenith number so that no long
distance calls would be necessary
anywhere in the county.
Another benefit of the system
would be that in case a fire was
too much for one brigade 'to
handle, it could call back to the
dispatcher who would send other
brigades to help.
Citing the case of a massive
disaster such as the gas
explosions in London, one council
member said that it made sense
to, tie county fire brigades
together with a central dispatcher
as a similar disaster might occur
in Huron County.
The McKillop reeve said that
most fire trucks in the county
would be equipped with two-way
radios "before too long within the
next three or four years,"
Trucks equipped like this would
be able to respond to such an
emergency.
All county fire brigades, even
volunteer departments supported
by county grants, would be
eligible to participate Reeve
Campbell said in response to a
question.
The advantage of this would be
to eliminate the possibility of two
fire departments answering calls
from different people turning in
alarms for the same fire, he said.
Another council member
suggested that a professional
dispatcher would know better
how to handle a panicking person
who was calling in an alarm.
The dispatcher would get
information concerning the
location and seriousness of a
blaze correctly. Fire brigades
would be sent to the right places.
Warden Elston summed up the
discussion saying that a study
into the feasibility of the central
dispatching system would not
commit council but, would only
provide a look at what could be
done and how much it would cost.
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