576 Comments for Haverford State Hospital

only teletherapy units ( for gamma rays) contain Co-60 X-ray machines do not. X-rays cannot be produced in nature

Do you think the minimalists were mental? Actually I could find this room rather soothing.

Now y'all will think I'm nuts for aying that.

wanna know a little sumtin? if you chip at the walls you will find what is refered to as "3lb sheet lead" as in 3lbs per sq.ft. it,s pretty common in X-ray areas....even today

i knew i hadnt imagined it... look up goiania clinic brazil on google.... they even made a film about it called cesio 137.

maybe it was a radiotherapy machine

chris:

Thank you for all the invaluable information you have given us about these machines. I hope you don't mind that we changed your name to the first one you typed in so people could see that ALL the information was from the same person who obviously knows his or her stuff. One reader became confused, not knowing that you were from Europe, and when you used random letters as a name s/he apparently thought something s/he shouldn't have. In truth we are VERY appreciative of your information.

Please continue to contribute to this site. It's information like yours that helps enrich the value of these photos and better educates us all.

No radioactive isotope in x-ray machines, only x-ray tube (non radioactive) . . . . . listen to me . . . I'm a radiologist, I know what I'm talking about.

That machine looks like a Transworld . . . it was made in the late 80's.

There is no radioactive material in x-ray machines.
It is an x-ray tube (artificial radiation generator).

remember the brazillian clinic when they left the isotopes in a machine and kids got it all out and took it back to thier village and shared out the stuff to thier friends and they played with the "magic glowing stuff"

never eat liver and bacon, or steak and kidney pie at crawley hospital......

james thats amazing that you knew that... funny aint it how theres always someone who knows

There is definitely radioactive material in most X-RAY machines, but one would assume they remove it when the machine is no longer active. I really can't imagine they would leave something like that behind. Most machines in the UK that have been abandoned have some kind of notice though that the dangerous materials have been removed.

your knowledge is endless, thank you.

That's funny. Where I work the morgue is across the hall from the break room for the hospital staff.