1,256 Comments for Foxboro State Hospital

Outstanding, I can imagine the sounds and what it looked like in it's day and worse. lol

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Not cold water - tepid water. That was the entire point of the treatment. With "true" cold water people die quickly from hypothermia. Some people called it cold because the temp is lower than that used in bathtubs, which is normally quite warm/hot.

"Many patients died from this form of treatment." Some people died, as always happens with any treatment, but from a review of all records and literature I could find, the majority of people appear to have died because the treatment was done incorrectly - i.e., the neck piece was not adjusted and the person slid in the water and drowned (especially if a seizure was involved) or someone actually did screw up and put cold water in. I see people saying "a lot of deaths" but I haven't seen any real numbers - just people quoting other people's reports.

"No fresh water." Also incorrect. The water circulated through continuously with fresh water coming in and old water draining out on a continual basis.

A large number of people benefitted from this form of therapy before psychotropic medications were developed.

Yes they are refrigerators, I call them freezers for some reason :)

I just read about this recently . Sad to say but this is what happened. In hydrotherapy the person was put into a tub a canvas i believe under them and one on top streched sp tight up to the neck. the paient then was then inmersed in cold water the jets going this could go for hours or days. Many paitents died from this form of treatmant that is why it didn't last for a long time like ect and other treatments have. If they had a BM while in the tub it stayed in the tub no fresh water.

Morgues wouldn't have freezers, they would contain refrigerators. Wouldn't they?

Theres a building on the grounds that has a huge tree growing from the floor right up through where the roof used to be. Its the one set apart from the main facility up on a small hill. It really blows these pics out of the water.

okay that room looks scary and i think that mental hospitals are like a damn prision

Cool, was the Dexter Building the newer-looking medical facility? Nah I've never had any supernatural experiences anywhere...

The oldest parts of the hospital date back to the erly 1800's alot of the electrical fixtures were added in as "after thoughts" when electricity was discovered and comercialised.

Besides, the really sick/dangerous patients wern't kept on the main floors. They were kept in the tunnels and basement security areas.

Hey twug, my grandmother was a nurse there (FSH) for 30 odd years.

She had plenty of stories to tell. Lots of wierd stuff. From the mid 50's to the early 70's some REALLY twisted people were kept there.

Later in the late 70's all the dangerous patients were transfered to Taunton State Hospital. Then in the early 80's when I worked there, it was all mentally handicapped patients (Downs Syndrome).

Ok motts, now you're on my old stopming ground. I grew up in Foxboro, worked in the kitchen there when I was in High School. I was the guy who drove the electric cart through the tunnel from the main buildings kitchen to the now recently demolished "Dexter Building". As tina stated above there were some freaky experiences I had while working there.

I'm curious, did you experience anything during your visits?

this looks like what they had in tb hospitals for the residents to sun bathe

incredible, gives me the creeps

okay I just gotta say it


CAROLANN GO TO THE LIGHT!!!!!
( I am truely sorry but I just could not help myself