Hospital construction and management / by Frederic J. Mouat and H. Saxon Snell.
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hospital construction and management / by Frederic J. Mouat and H. Saxon Snell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![with the same tubes opening into the air without covering of any kind, and that the results arrived at not being considered satisfactory, further tests were determined upon. Under- standing that Biram’s anemometers—or “ Lownes,” which are similar—were used by the committee in the first experiments, I communicated to it the results of my inquiry as detailed above, and I have reason to believe that, in consequence, an exhaustive series of somewhat similar tests are being carried out by this committee. It will be interesting to learn how far the results obtained by them will accord with mine. GAS v. ELECTRIC LIGHTING. [The following Account was published in “The Engineer,” July 2ist 1882.] Result of an Enquiry by H. Saxon Snell into the respective Cost of Lighting a London Infirmary by Electricity and by Gas. Many hundreds of thousands of pounds have lately been invested in elecftric light companies upon the faith of statements made in the prospectus that the mode of lighting is as cheap, if not cheaper, than that by gas. As to public buildings, we are told that “ the difference between the cost of gas and electricity, light for light, is largely in favour of elecftric light, as proved by the Brush arc system at South Kensington—a saving of £325 16s. 4d. having been effeefted during nine months as compared with the cost of gas.” Then, Sir William Thompson is stated to have “ had his house fitted with incandescent lamps from cellar to attic, to the entire banishment of gas, and the cost of internal wires for elecftric lamps is less than the cost of fittings in connecftion with gas pipes.” Lastly, we have the statement of Mr. William Crookes, F.R.S., and direeftor of the Gulcher Elecftric Light Company, that he has fitted up two rooms in his private house with elecftric lamps, and has effeefted a saving of £4 17s. 6d. per annum as compared with gas-lights. No wonder, then, that one of my clients—a public Board—deemed it its duty to ascertain the cost of lighting by elecftricity one of the large institutions under its control. It instructed me to obtain estimates, and accordingly I applied to three of the most important elecftric light companies for specifications and tenders for lighting the building in question, merely stipulating that the work should be executed under the same general conditions as those employed in the contract for the supply of gas pipes and fittings. In the result three tenders were received for the execution of the works, amounting, respectively, to £5,500, £4,345, and £3,143. It then became my duty to make an estimate of what would be the annual cost of lighting the building supposing one or the other of these tenders to be accepted, and I did so as follows, from one furnished me by one of the companies in question, though](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21911319_0564.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
