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I wanna read about the blood chem!
Lynne and Motts, Kudos for your ethics though regarding the privacy of those lost souls.
They suffered enough in real life without being made a spectacle again!
Seriously though, someone should file those.
It's such a shame that all these relics are just rotting away!

The big one is a blood collection vial, but the others lare ampules.
Really small ampuoles though.
Any human nurses (I'm a veterinary nurse) want to speculate as to what was in those little amps?
Maybe barbituates to "calm" code white patients?

Looks like a gynelogical examination table.

This is such a SAD picture. Regardless of the handicap, there is NOTHING like a GOOD Mother's love. Every child needs to be held and given attention , and shown love in order to thrive properly. And yes, I commend anyone who works with the handicapped; whether it's the elderly, mental problems, or anyhting. Just like working in forensics or anything like that; it takes a special person to be able to do different things. Some people could and some people couldn't.

I'm enlightened, after reading all this important information, that helps me understand somewhat better. But hearing Sianaby's comment, I just sat here shaking my head; not from the end comment; but the beginning. I have 4 children and I just have to thank God they're all healthy and never had any really major medical problems!

Nancy, I hang out at an art studio that was a furniture factory long before it closed down (not sure when, couldn't have been any later than the 60's or 70's). When the building was purchased and re-opened (last year), according to the art instructor, everything was still in place as if the workers just walked out one day. She even found someone's old glasses sitting on a machine! I certainly don't understand it either.

Beautiful

Guess where you worked, Silkster40z, they really cared. That's the only thing that really baffles me , looking at these pictures; it's as if they closed up and just walked away. I can't understand alot of that. But then I read alot of books on abandonments in the wesr and alot of places still have all their furniture in them and in the one, even the bed was made! It's like they just took off!!

The Wicked Witch of the West?

Does anyone know what would be the reason or reasons people were put in seclusion?

With the brick-work on the walls in every room, I think this place REALLY looks like a hospital. Some places don't seem as cold when the walls are different.

Were these mostly children here? I just never realized, until I got on this site, the enormity of mental illness. Do you think children or older people were wrongly diagnosed back then? Like today we have so many afflications a child could have; hyperactivity, bi-polar, etc.; but we cwetainly don't put them in aninstitution for it.

If I was completely alone, walking down this hallway, I know I'd feel paranoid. Whenever I went exploring, I always tried to have someone with me; I feel that's alot safer. Looking at all these pictures; I try to imagine walking through the rooms, etc. Would love it!

Love the site and had to pipe in on this one.
I'm a Veterinary nurse and our operating tables have hooks to secure an animal onto the table during surgery with rope or bungee cord.
That's what they are!
I guess they didn't want the body slipping.
Once again, FANTASTIC photos!

-Lex

those tunnels are insanely scary sometimes... why werent the parents aloud to see where their kids lived? didn't they pay for them to go there afterall???