8 Comments Posted by Bridgit

Has this got a handle on it? and wheels? It looks like it might have ....Patient (and body) transport....

Looks like an old highschool. Which it became for the kids under drug 'treatment'....ughhhhh...

Thats an awesome photo.

Yeah, staff home.......either docs or nurses....

This is the nurses home isn't it? I've seen it in photos on another site. Nurses homes are similar of course world over. I lived in one once, (Australia) and it was fun. With our red capes and nurses caps. Can see nurses dressed like that running up those stairs...Mary Mallon socialized with the Riverside nurses in that home.

This is in the TB Pavilion??? So, yep, likely in a room lined in lead. Chest x rays galore....

No, they were the usual food fridges in all types of large institutions well into the early 80's. The islands morgue is separate/ a long way from the wards, nurses home, doctors quarters etc. Which was the norm too.

Hmmm, yes, that puts a chill up the spine. Soon as I saw it, 'psych ward' comes to mind. I too worked in one 40+ years ago, as another has written here. Not in North America, but they were/are the same world over. Nurses station indeed, through the internal window/opening. Its a very 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' situation. There were indeed nurses like N. Rachett, not many, but that was too many. Working with those types of fiends was hard. I ended up on the other side of the nurses station for a few weeks once, hahaha and that was the ultimate. Experiencing both sides of it all. Knowing exactly what was going on in the nurses station and the staffroom freaked them out more than it did me. This is an amzing place, its history is fascinating. I found it while researching Mary Mallon. Thanks for the photos...