89 Comments Posted by david

Now I know where all the soap dispenser jokes came from.

I wonder what that cart was used for last.

Lol Sweed, my thoughts exactly.

I think its kind of strange how a lot of these hospitals had water towers near them.

What I want to know is how exactly the patients injured the staff.

Wow, it almost looks as though a flame is coming out from the door.

How old do you think this part was/is?

Any idea why somebody would spraypaint, "OK" at every door?

The way the floor was curved like that reminds me of went to visit my aunt in New York a couple of years ago. There was a lot of rain, and water got under the hardwood flooring causing them to curve upwards like that.

I don't know if somebody said this before, but it looks like a great white shark leaping out of the water.

I've walked down that corridor. Actually it looks better now than when it was closed up and dark.

Amazing. Patients were at one time threatened with ECT (without sedative or muscle relaxant) if they were being disruptive. Hopefully that doesnt happen these days!

I worked in this hospital for a few months in the early 1970s. It's a medicine cupboard on a ward. The word 'poison' is to keep patients from trying to open it.

In those days most wards were locked (acute admissions wards are still locked today) and there were 'side rooms' (padded cells, effectively) where patients who were uncontrollable were locked for the protection of other patients. This might be one of them. I'm not quite sure how far things have progressed by today, to be quite honest.

All are nice photo's. Did the ceiling have crank open skylights?