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You can guess...
Probably a harness for patients who won't sit still for it!

I would most likely get lost in a place like this...doomed to wander the building forever!

Jaysus, Motts. You sure do know how to set up a sinister shot! Ever thought of doing photography and filming for Horror movies?

Wow, this picture is rather disturbing, isn't it? It makes me want to go and rescue that poor Teddy.

Rightly or wrongly, maybe the really thought they needed to monitor certain patients' every move!

It is a very creepy shot indeed. The sheet makes it look almost ghostly now, doesn't it?

Forget cleaning them, I love how they look with all the dirt and mould on them.
And twins is a very appropriate title.
Lovely shot. Just amazing.

I agree with Anna. It seems like the same percautions taken for doors for violent patients. Surely they didn't keep patients down here, did they?

It looks awkward, like a tall, thin girl.

Chalkmisfit, it's a hydrotherapy tub where they put patients in and subjugate them to (I believe) very cold water, or some such thing. Motts would be the guy to ask about Hydrotherapy, as he probably knows more than I on the subject.

I'd be in absolute giddy awe if I was to go and explore this place! Abandoned amusement parks always fasinate me, and with this place depicting such a children-intended theme, it's got a creepy feel to it. It sucks that this place had to be left to rot.

But thank God for people like your mother who took care of these folks. Always underappreciated, frequently underpaid, often slandered by outsiders, often pushed around by the more dominant and less caring staff, but working for their charges selflessly because it wasn't about the money - it was about the people they took care of. She earned the love and respect of her charges and could look at herself in the mirror at the end of the day. She is someone we can all definitely look up to. :-)

nice work.

my mother worked as a nurse in a center very similar to this and she would come home some nights with tear-filled eyes as another child she had grown fond of and worked closely with had passed away. a very harsh and tragic reality of the sometimes short lifespan the disfigured and severely handicapped, a loving staff was their only savior but all too often the ones who worked the longest and rose in the ranks were the heartless and cruel.

love it.