to reduce its consumption-based rates on the grounds of the difficult economic sit-
uation.^965 It would appear that Suopanki, the supervisor of the electrical installation
at Paimio Sanatorium, who worked for a competing company, was well aware of the
plight that Lounais-Suomen Sähkö had found itself in and could use the situation to
the advantage of the sanatorium.
Unlike the other installations in the hospital, the electricity contractors drew up
electrical drawings as part of the tender, based on the acquisition plan.^966 The plan
drawings presented building-specific light fittings, sockets and risers. The acquisition
plan included some 40 motors, 1,586 light fittings and 650 sockets in the different
buildings. Since the ventilation plan had not yet been completed, the necessary mechan-
ical exhausts were excluded from the plan.^967
A substation was built for the sanatorium where the high-voltage three phase
current was reduced to low-voltage 320/220V current.^968 Lighting and power lines
were arranged on the low-voltage side into separate networks. Underground cables
to buildings A, B, C and the boiler room arrived at the distribution centres housed in
the basement, which were connected to lighting and power lines in the basement and
the risers. Each floor had its own distribution panels connected with final branches so
that the light bulbs on one side were divided between at least a couple of risers, which
originated in two different supply cables in the basement. To serve the patient rooms,
25 channels were reserved for the light fitting risers. Each patient room had two sockets,
one wall lamp, one double wall lamp and two rotation switches. By each patient room,
in a shaft accessible from the corridor, a distribution panel was installed.^969
The light fittings were purchased by the developer, except for the outdoor lights,
which were included in the acquisition programme. The main entrance road to the
hospital was lined with 19 lamp posts, with eight all-night and 11 half-night street
lights. According to the acquisition programme, the street lights were mounted on
conventional timber posts.^970 The lights were, however manufactured according to the
architect’s design and they had a stem made of metal tube and concrete.^971
The loss of current in the lighting cables between the substation control panel and any
given light fitting was not allowed to exceed five percent. The permitted loss of current
in the underground supply cables was only half of this. These were requirements that the
contractor was to observe when measuring the cables. Since the hospital was located on
a remote site and the electricity supply depended on a five-kilometre long high-voltage
965 Haikala 1987, pp. 18–20.
966 The acquisition plan was probably devised by Suopanki. The acquisition programme for the power current instal-
lation work at the Tuberculosis Sanatorium of Southwest Finland. Documents related to the Paimio Sanatorium
project. AAM.
967 Ibidem, pp. 1–4.
968 Ibidem, pp. 4–5.
969 Ibidem, passim.
970 Ibidem, p. 12.
971 Drawings Nos. 50-299 and 50-356. AAM.