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They are enclosed fire escape stairwells. They were located off the Patient dormitories.

They never did autopsy in building 7. Only done at medical examiners office in Hauppauge.

We lived a couple of miles from this place in 1995 we had a good look round was in much better condition some rooms were like walking into the past. We found a medicine room with medicines still there but crystalized. The mosaic on the entrance was covered over in black tape. We found false limbs in a service lift. And chest xrays in the staff rooms some doors were locked but we found a board with keys hung up and tried them on some doors and got into a few we must have been the first people to look in for years and years.

There is no tour that I know of.

I'm not entirely sure about Weston in particular, but most accounts I've read about hospital life sound quite static and uneventful... aside from meals, the popular kind of therapy at the time (occupational, hydrotherapy, etc), and holidays, there seemed to be a fair amount of just sitting around. In the early days, leading reformers of the field sought to combat this kind of languishing with occupational work (farming, gardening, etc) and the construction of movie theaters, pools, tennis courts. Ironically, some of these were rarely or never used due to lack of funding to maintain them, or staff indifference.



Reading some ward reports from the 1970s at a similar hospital really exhibited a set routine, day after day after day. Some have criticized this methodical way of life as being used to establish control of the patients, as well as enabling the staff to perform a minimal amount of work throughout the day at the expense of the resident's well-being.



Of course, conditions at Weston could've been better, worse, or most likely, varied depending on the particular ward and point in history.

I believe these kinds of generators are still used in some particle physics research, electrostatic education, and to power high energy X-ray machines. Some modifications to the design have allowed them to supply more power (ie. pelletrons) and are used in pharmaceutical research, nuclear research, and mass spectrometers for carbon dating. Modern particle research, such as quantum mechanics, requires much larger and more powerful accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

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is there a tour or do u have to get in yourself

So interesting. Lovely and sad at the same time.

That gate is a locked door into the "seclusion rooms" that were used to hold the patients in solitary confinement.
The patients were held there against there will for a few hours.
I don't think anyone had his head banged against the wall. Duh, that would leave bruises. They had a court set up in A building with a judge exacting the U.S. law.

The second time I worked at that shithole (1977 - 1979), I realized that the problem was the government, and that I, working for the State of Michigan WAS the government.
That sucked.

super helpful information regaaurding the asylum,but wouldlike to learn more about what happened inside the asylum

So...why don't we use technology like this today??

This is so cool