132 Comments for Fort Howard VA Hospital

Most hospital policies for post mortem care require that patients existing wrist band, This tag is stamped with the patients charge plate, one on the toe, one on the outside of the shroud. Often times these tags are also applied to dentures, eye glasses, or hearing aids and enclosed in the shroud with the deceased. This is handled according to the families choice. Some families take these items to the mortuary. Some just want them sent along with the deceased.

@ money ~ I hope you meant to type "What". . . that said, this is really cool. I would have had a hard time leaving that behind.

regular clothing store mannequins had holes in their feet so you could put the pole from the stand through there so (s)he could stand up. I know this from my window dressing days. Usually the hole was in the butt (no, really) which was annoying sometimes trying to position and dress these. I used to draw crowds when I was changing windows trust me! Sometimes the smaller ones, like for children's wear, had them in the feet, I suppose it depended on the manufacturer.

or other body part

this is too gruesome to think about. . . but still cool

I'd like to have an embalming table in my dining room for those intimate candlelight suppers

That looks like an old DOS monitor to me but I could be wrong. I wouldn't mind having this in my bathroom at home, that is if it could even fit in there.

I did an image search for "embalming table" and it wasn't all that work friendly so pulled the eject handle as I'm in a fairly new job. (they might forgive looking at abandoned site photos, but yeah- corpses not so much probably) Good question.

I believe it's still owned by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, another elephantine hospital building too costly to renovate or tear down.

I recall there being a security guard; the tricky part was getting to the building without him noticing.

Didn't see the rest of him anywhere... seems logical that the torso and heads of CPR dummies would be worth more than the legs and feet!

I thought it was Sparrows Point, but looking at a map I now believe those structures are the Herbert Wagner and Brandon Shores Generating Stations near Orchard Beach.

We drove by the Sparrows Point steel mill while we were down there, it looked incredible back then; seems to be mostly torn down now.

Oh my! Motts, I would love this as wallpapaer. Such a peaceful view!

Motts, who is this place owned by?

I've always had a dream of being able to buy or lease a place like this for tours, respectful paranormal tours and historical tours, since that's what I'm into. With this history this place has, there's sure to be lot of things going on inside.

Was security pretty tight there, Motts?

Man, I see that thing rolling towards me, I am outta there! Nah, I'd be filming it if anything.

But yes, this one seems the best condition of any I've seen on the sight--there must be more. The way my back feels right now, I sure could use one!

Wonder why it has a hold in its foot? JP is right, these practice mannequins are in high demand and can command some hefty prices.

Motts, did you peek inside and see if it was a full dummy in there, lol.

Sure this could have been used elsewhere.