7 Comments Posted by H.B.

I must agree that it is to the outsider, who may have a distorted picture of how these facilities functioned, that everything becomes like a horror story. Some lack respect. I am an Autopsy technician, and think it it best to leave these places
alone because of respect as much as potential hazard. The same reason we are very particular about who we let into the morgue area while we are working. I have invited some, but had to throw others out. Above all, be
careful. And save a prayer for the mourners...

Please remember that these places are highly contagious. You ARE bound to get in touch with active TBC, Cholera etc. These organisms live
a very long time in places like this. Wear protective clothing, gloves and DON'T EAT OR DRINK ANYTHING afterwards without washing your hands VERY carefully. CJD is a disease that can taqke 15 years to show symptoms. and it is easy to think everything went well...
until you suddenly get sick. Formalin causes cancer...Not safe. Read the signs, please.

Again, this container seems so modern, just like the ones we use today. Many details do. It is nothing but the obvious deterioration that says it wasn't used a year ago.

Yes the bleach is used for cleaning sufaces; formalin is a chemical you don't want to use outside the corpse more than you have to.

I think autopsy rooms like these are still used. This could have been used in the 70:ies - or yesterday. I live close to morgues I worked in, and they have decayed like this in less than 20 years. Remember that the morgue is the last place to get any fundings!

It is true: you had to remove your white coat, that was supposed to be clean and non-infected, so in the autopsy room you just wore the scrubs you
had underneath the coat. Like Seventh said.

The hooks are for connecting gurneys to the table when we transfer the body. If you see a hook like that in the foot-end, it is for a bucket, if the table or gurney lack drainage. I am a post mortem technician and see them quite often.