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Kids with Downs Syndrome are the most LOVABLE people you will ever enocounter, I am sure that they were a bright part of the staffs day. I used to pick up a child from school who had DS, and I opened my arms up and he sprinted into them. He really made my day at times.
My co-worker and I were out with the kids one day on the field behind the ymca and I looked up and shouted "my gods we have to go in now!!" There was a tornato! Well 25 kids ran towards the gym and I yell "Chris" (The 7 year old with DS) Well, ol "Chris" was ahead of the pack by far! He was the first to the Gym!!

One of my fav shots and one of my fav backgrounds :)

I'm revisiting this gallery because I just got back from a trip to the States and found a postcard in an antique shop from Buffalo State Hospital... Now, if only I could obtain one from Danvers... *sigh*

Yeah.

Its called Skeleton Stories on Discovery Health
The episode is titled "Buried Secrets" and it airs again on July 13, 2007 @ 10 pm and 1 am.
It was REALLY intresting! So SET YOUR DVR!!!

Don't know what they use in pediatric wards these days. Any of you people who currently work in regular hospitals out there who can answer? My guess is that they don't use them much, if at all, but I haven't worked in a "regular" hospital for a while. Where I currently work we don't have anyone in beds like these for safety reasons, even young children.

Society at the time urged families who had children with disabilities of any sort to place them in facilities such as this for life where they would be "better taken care of" and "less of a burden to their families." Children with easily identifiable syndromes, such as Down syndrome, were sometimes sent to residential facilities when they were infants.

Today there is much better access to funding for in-home services, but there are certain catches to the funding in some states and sometimes the funding decreases or disappears when the person "ages out of the program" at age 22. It's something this society still hasn't decided definitively how to deal with and a very sore spot for people with disabilities and their families.

We don't use cribs like this any more because they are potentially hazardous - it's too easy to catch an arm, leg, or a head in the bars. Current beds are supposed to be built with safety in mind and have to go through all sorts of rigorous standards and testing. Where I currently work every bed on campus has to be checked multiple times each month by various staff (program administrator, safety representative, program director, housekeeping, quality assurance, AND buildings & grounds staff) and documentation provided that this occurred.

Interesting! Do you remember the specific title or name of the show or when it was on? I'd be interested in seeing that. :-)

Todd,

Feel free to share mine anytime. I get kicked off frequently, so there's always room. :-)

Four to beam down...

If you found them in the dentist room, than perhaps its Novacane?

"Artois Fire Department?"

Very nice - Is that the bottling line?

Hot and cold water supply for the vat, looks like. There's a later shot where you can see what looks like a dial-type thermometer on the pipe that leads from these into the vat.
That's my guess.

looks like a face up there

"groovy"

uhhhhh Lynne, I hope you check back from time to time, cause I have another question for you...Do they still use these? I remember when I was 12, they brought me back from surgery in one of those. No lid this time!