3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

I would start by contacting the state's mental health or human services departments to locate these records.

Hittman Medical Systems is/was the parent company of Medcraft; not sure where the name originates.

No worries, I just have that message there as most people right-click to download photos and post them elsewhere :)

If you make your browser window even more narrow, you should see a link appear beneath the photo that will allow you to open a new window to view it full size, so you can scroll around all you like.

Tony - definitely seems to have been a laundry or autoclave room at some point, given the tiled floor, sinks, and your observations. The white thing on the right is part of a customized wheelchair, which I believe had a tray or table built into the front.

I'm not sure; you might want to try to contact the developers of the site: http://www.villagesatstaunton.com/

Thanks, I'll definitely mull it over. I will be without internet for the next week so hopefully it'll stay up and running!

Yup I try to keep some art sprinkled around :) thank you!

OK I think I've managed to get it back up and running temporarily. I'm not really sure what to do about it quite yet, but it might just be too outdated to bring it up to snuff, so everything would need to start on a clean slate here on opacity or elsewhere (facebook?)... thank you for offering to help, but I think I just need to sit down with the site this summer and work on this stuff!

Sorry, the forum has been on its last legs for some time and it finally bit the dust. I've been working two jobs to eek by and haven't had time to invest in repairing it (if it can even be repaired). I am going to try to get it back up and running at least temporarily so everyone can archive anything they need before it gets removed, but I have no idea when that might happen. I apologize for the problems and uncertainty.

Yes, the groundskeeper was working awfully close to the crypt and I wasn't sure if there was some English law that would nail me to the wall if I got caught in there. The dead people don't bother me much.

Hi Pedro (and everyone), just wanted to let you all know that I am obscuring the last names of former residents mentioned by others in respect of their privacy, as they might not want to broadcast this information on the internet. Other than that, feel free to continue the discussion, thanks!

Good eye on the stacking feature, I hadn't noticed that.

The pipe up there just has some peeling paint, which does not want to adhere to the rusting steel surface; the rooms seems to have been green before they painted it yellow.

Yes there was the "master shocker" at Buffalo State Hospital, however I could not ascertain if it was used specifically for ECT; it seems most commonly used for animal behavior studies. Unfortunately the device seemed to have been used on institutionalized patients, as referenced in the article "Effects of Contingent Shock and Verbal Command on Body Rocking of Retardates" (Alfred Baumeister & Rex Forehand, 1972 http://www.neurodivers..._baumeister_1972.pdf ), which in itself is disturbing as well. Photo of that particular room is here: http://opacity.us/imag...1_master_shocker.htm

I only know of one other explorer who had come across an ECT unit (or rather a few in a storage room), which was the same model as the one pictured here. As they look like a makeup case when closed, I'll bet they've been overlooked more than once.

Thanks all! Nah probably more in the low 200s range; it's certainly thinning out as years go by and these kinds of places vanish.

As fun as a smoking elevator might be, I think Ixnay is correct :)