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I believe you are right, thanks!
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Beautiful poem, Twug!
You have a quite the gift! : )
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Obviously I haven't seen the papers, but it looks to me like it says "Suicidals" rather than "Suicides". Perhaps it means that one patient was feeling suicidal, rather than that they did manage to kill themselves? That might fit in rather better with the other column being for taking precautions against escapes - having a column for tallying people who succeeded in killing themselves (presumably when the hospital was trying to prevent such action) seems a little odd to me.
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neat aspirator that is what it is. I had one
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Fantastik!!!!!!! Simply the premimum Motts. These caskets are just breathtaking.
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this is scary lookin! i need this for my younger brother!
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Good map of area and building info:
http://gdhospital.trip...ures/buildingmap.gif
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Why is it that this site seems to be a magnet for all the ignorant... "individuals" who think all people who spent time in psychiatric hospitals were "psycho" or violent or somehow scary? There are some people like this but the majority of them are not even remotely.
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What is really disturbing is the comment made by Sam "fists". Are you saying that you partook in the abuse of these patients? Does anyone else want to investigate the truth or falsities of this statement? This has come to the attention of another web site altogether (your comment) because of the attention NSH is getting with Ghost Hunters and the reality show, Celebrity Paranormal Project. Apparently they wanted to or filmed in this location.
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Someone was on the right track here. This is no doubt the cooler, in the Morgue, that held up to two deceased individuals, prior to their removal by the undertaker. There is almost the exact same set up at the former Norfolk County Hospital in Braintree which was built right around the same period as the PCH. They recently painted their old cooler Black, probably the only updating of there "storage" in almost 90 years!! The former Norfolk County Hospital, is still in use as a hospital but is now in private hands. It was from there that the superintendant of the hospital contacted me about 10 years ago and told me of some wonderful old Glass slides of the PCH from the 1920's and 30's, he knew of my History background and I still have them to this day. Fascinating stuff, old views of the hospital as it looked in its glory days, patients, staff etc., the better ones hand colored. Even a slide of the sheet music from the 1920's entitled "March of the TB Bugs"!! I kid you not.
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FANTABULOUS!!!!!!!!
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GOSH I LOVE THOSE HANDLES. I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THOSE ON MY KITCHEN CABINETS INSTEAD OF STUPID 1980'S STYLED HANDLES!
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IT LOOKS LIKE THE CLOTH MIGHT HAVE BEEN VELVET, VERY REGAL!
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I'd like to clarify that I don't condone involuntary ECT.
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ECT sure beats the deuce out of older stuff, though. insulin? Metrazol anybody? I'm sure I have a leucotome somewhere...
all joking aside, there are tons of medical procedures and "treatments" that were cutting edge that we consider barbaric today. Perspective is a funny thing... Especially when one's perspective happens to be the face of the person about to zap your brain with a 400v electric shock.