576 Comments for Haverford State Hospital

I hope this is of a station on floors 3 and up, because the one on floor two is now completly destroyed.

Ed, security here is somewhat lax. There is one cop car at the main gate. There is a backdrive way with no security that i've seen. I have yet to see any patrols.

The redevelopment plan is for condominiums, as well as a small amount of retail space. The recreation center issue has yet to be decided. Some say it should be here, others say it should be at a nearby abandoned gum factory.

okay, stupid question #973031,
Why does every, mental hospital i see on this web page have a freiking moruge.

"The Scene of the Crime"

Probaly a bunch of kids just fartin off around one day.

To aleviate fears. Diagnostic Xray Machines have absolutely no radioactive material in them, PERIOD. The way an XRay is produced is by firing highly excited electrons traveling past the range of visible light and into the range of XRay where they are fired across a vacuumm tube inside the round metal canister. These strike an anode and are deflected through a glass port in the bottom of the tube. The box at the bottom with the knobs is a collimater which decides the size of the field of electons passing by using adjuxtable lead sheets. The electrons pass through the body and the table and into a film cassette. The inside of this cassette contains specially treated sheets on both sides that glow when bombarded by the electrons, thereby exposing the film.

The only hazard is when the machine is actually shooting an XRay.

Castle Sterilizer was originally Wilmot Castle. They were the second most popular large sterilizer manufacturer in the US, behind AMSCO
(American Sterilizer Company). Castle was purchased by Getinge and AMSCO was purchase by STERIS. This is a nice old machine and would be considered a Medium size Steam Sterilizer. I have been a Biomedical Electronics Technician for over 30 years and know just about all medical Equipment. I don't like Castle either!

March 2005... didn't see any bowling balls unfortunately!

It is a dental x-ray. That room itself had more interesting stuff in it than most of the hospital, manly because the layout of this one room took forever to look around in. The room itself was only 20x30 feet, but was partitioned to make seperate dental examination rooms

Parties, thats what happened. Kids would have parties in the freezers thinking the thickness would hold in the sound, so they'd be in there partiyng blasting music not realizing the tiles amplified the sound, you could hear it all over the campus.

Motts, i'm not sure when you went, but as of around a year ago you could still find bowling balls around the campus. We tried looking for one back in january but no luck, so i guess theyve all been taken

Somebody did smash it, last time i went up they had pushed it off the loading dock. It wasnt completly destroyed, just a big mangled.

ya know, hospitals do research, well... maybe they were messing with some supper drug, and the broken floor is the result of some hormone enraged basket ball uber-god...!!

HEY ya know, they had this as the "upper crust" Hosptital, maybe the doctors wanted their cars auto claved, what I mean.. dont you want your lincon or caddy to be hypo-cleaned?

This thing is so cool looking, and I love the name "Master Electrode Selector".
"T5.....you sunk my battleship!" .

T5, *repeat 19 times* BINGO!