22 Comments Posted by Uncle Steve, NH, USA

A standard Symmons High flow-Low flow tempering valve installation.
The missing parts, which would have been where you see the double screw holes would have been a pressure reducing valve and a pressure gauge. Such set-ups are still common today.

Judging from the piping on the sides of the tub and the oversized drainage outlets that this tub was probably one of the first hydrotherepy divices.

Very nice, The objects at the top of the doors that have conduit leading to them are magnetic locks, I didn't know that they had them that far back.

It looks like the remnants of a Brodrick green soap dispensor minus the plastic bottle.

That is a Powers Shower Tempering valve, so a box of oder sorb would not be uncommom in an institutional shower area.

This is indeed a bedpan sterilizer. It is designed to clean and sterilize only bedpans. Notice the insulated pipe to the left of the unit. That is a live steam pipe, the method of sterilization. The small dark tube to the right of the that pipe is a water pipe, used to clean the bedpan before sterilization. No question, a bedpan sterilizer.

That needle pegged at 340 psig but to be damaged like that it must have been subjected to a minimum of 10% over pressure..ie 380 psig. That would have been a scarey shift for the boilerman.