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The only people that were put in iron lungs were those whose paralysis caused them not to be able to breathe on thier own. The polio would affect the nerves in the spinal column. The parts of the body that were paralized were determined by which vertebrae were affected by the polio. My mother's polio paralyzed her from the waist down. One more vertebrae and she would have required an iron lung. I am sure there were problems with bed sores. I imagine they did everything they could to make the polio patients more comfortable. And yes, some people did get well enough to leave the iron lung. Although there are still a few people still using them today.

I am certainly grateful that there was a seclusion room for that guy. I was more or less on a ward for people with depression and bi-polar. They moved that guy to a ward for people with more difficult situations. Seclusion is definately not a bad thing. If it were not for the seclusion room a lot more people might have been hurt. The good part was they brought everyone ice cream when things settled down.

Lynne, love the info. Please keep it up

the face doesnt look very happy ;)

And I thought my school's 1980-something Jands lighting system was ancient...

these steps remind me of the first time i climbed stairs.. great stairs

Wow... that's the type of hobby/interest I need.

this is going in my top 10 photos of dilapidated stairs

It looks like you could go left or right but only up, or down from either direction

thats one great gauge!

these floors were origanly designed by ford in his plants, gm used them as well. it was for placement on machinery and assemblyline equipment. instead of cutting concrete and repouring to fit a need that changed from year to year, they would pull up the blocks they needed and "rearrange" the assembly line floor.

Go on ebay; there's plenty of Danver's things for sale. But, excuse me for saying, I think that's pathetic.

There's pain and misery everywhere; not just asylums.

Would have made lovely apartments but I guess they would rather use dry-wall. As far as the "haunting thing", I don't care WHERE you live, there is history everywhere. How do you know what's happened where you're living now?

Janice, you can BUY the slate tiles off of ebay for $9.99 a piece but, so sorry, that doesn't include shipping or handling.