521 Comments for West Middlesex Hospital

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Please remember that these places are highly contagious. You ARE bound to get in touch with active TBC, Cholera etc. These organisms live
a very long time in places like this. Wear protective clothing, gloves and DON'T EAT OR DRINK ANYTHING afterwards without washing your hands VERY carefully. CJD is a disease that can taqke 15 years to show symptoms. and it is easy to think everything went well...
until you suddenly get sick. Formalin causes cancer...Not safe. Read the signs, please.
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Again, this container seems so modern, just like the ones we use today. Many details do. It is nothing but the obvious deterioration that says it wasn't used a year ago.
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Yes the bleach is used for cleaning sufaces; formalin is a chemical you don't want to use outside the corpse more than you have to.
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I think autopsy rooms like these are still used. This could have been used in the 70:ies - or yesterday. I live close to morgues I worked in, and they have decayed like this in less than 20 years. Remember that the morgue is the last place to get any fundings!
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It is true: you had to remove your white coat, that was supposed to be clean and non-infected, so in the autopsy room you just wore the scrubs you
had underneath the coat. Like Seventh said.
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my birthday was 06-06-06..i turned 16!
btw amazing photos i absolutely LOVE
them.
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If you really want critiques, the line on the right side of the slab is very strong and drags my eye right down to the bottom of the picture. The rusty bar breaks the flow of the verticle lines in this picture.
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The hospital is still open and things have not changed much!!
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There have been a few harsh criticisms, although not as many as I thought there would be. I welcome all critiques, whether they point out flaws or not.
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Me again i just want to explain myself and my comment,what i mean is of the thousands of photos of yours i've seen and how ever many comments ,of which i read all ,noone has ever ever said what a lousy shot or this could have been better if you did this.....do you wonder when someone will or have i just opened the biggest can of worms this site has ever seen.?Hey everyone i love Motts so before you send the boys around to break my legs please just let me have my say i'm just wondering what Motts thinks.:}
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Nice work as usual Motts,do you get sick of everyone saying good stuff about you,i know you deserve it your my favorite photographer by far,but i just wonder are you sick of us all gushing over your work and you or is it all good.dg...
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Great shot Motts!
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There are now companies which will store umbilical cord blood for the family's future use in the event of certain diseases. You pay an initial fee, and then monthly storage fees.

Some people bury the placenta, and later plant a tree above the burial spot. In some cultures, people (often just the mother) eat the placenta. This is called placentaphagia, and I thought I had heard of it, but thought maybe it was just some nightmarish idea I had, so I did look it up before I wrote this post. One person who claims to have eaten placenta is Tom Cruise (in an interview with GQ Magazine).
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Yeah, that is an AWFUL drawing, especially if drawn by an adult.. Bring you kids to work day maybe?
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Okay, how do you not get creeped out going to all these abandoned places? And how do you find out about all of them? I wouldn't even go to ONE of these abandoned places. They're all so creepy! I would, however, go to Rocky Point, but it's demolished. =/