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large open bathing rooms were quite common (and still are) as it wa easier to have one big tub to bathe one patient after the other and have enough room to assisst with getting in and out of the tub (for catatonic and physically disables persons, etc). Also they were in large open nonprivate rooms because of the safety risk of leaving a mentally unstable person or persons alone.