457 Comments for Roseville State School

Black and white shows more than color could. Beautiful pic.

I love how each building looks as if it is trying to tear itself down...tiles fall and the paint begins to crack, its like the building is depressed by its abandonment

This was in an attic, and it was retrofitted with pipes and electrical conduits etc... so definitely not a sleeping area. My best guess would be offices and / or storage.

Wow. that head picture was... Ermmmm... Interesting? I thought it was the same head, only I thought it was done with mirrors or photoshop. Not chopping it in half. Oh wow. While that is interesting I think I'lll stick with Motts' photos for now.. And to make this photo related, I thought it was bones at first glance...

Do you know, if this room was used as a sleeping room, an office or maybe storage or what?

Interesting. But ewwww, wouldn't that itch or something? Having them crawling around? I guess itching is better than scraping which sounds just awful and maybe there is something like a numbing agent that they use with the maggets? Anyway. neat, but also kinda yucky and creepy.

clean our community help the world stay clean maybe we will have a bette community.

Thanks, Big Ed - I knew they did that for necrotic tissue but hadn't thought about it for burn debridement.

I just got this off a website:

"Maggot Debridement Therapy (MDT) is the medical use of live maggots (fly larvae) for treating non-healing wounds.
In maggot debridement therapy (also known as maggot therapy, larva therapy, larval therapy, biodebridement or biosurgery), disinfected fly larvae are applied to the wound for 2 or 3 days within special dressings to keep them from migrating. The literature identifies three primary actions of medical grade maggots on wounds:
1. They clean the wounds by dissolving dead and infected tissue ("debridement");
2. They disinfect the wound (kill bacteria);
3. They speed the rate of healing."

You learn something new every day! :-)

Some times they will use maggots to debride burns. The dead tissue is a maggot smorgasbord. Less painfu, andl they do a better job.

TOOO LATE!! SEARCHED IT .
LOOKS EXTREAMLY PAINFUL.

To re-iterate how painful it is/was, when my uncle talked about it, he stated he asked the doctor to kill him instead of continuing. He stated the treatment was worse than the burns by far, and if he had known how bad it was going to be, he would have laid in the fire and happily died. He was by no means a sad, or suicidal person, it just hurt that badly. I of course am glad he didn't die, and he turned out ok, allot of scarring etc which is expected. For some reason seeing some of the tubs on the site reminded me of him recalling his experiences.

Thanks for the medical term Lynne.

By the way, if you are weak of stomach, or eating beef jerky, as I was, don't do a google images search for debridement.

They used to do mechanical debridement (that is, removal or scraping off) of burn tissue in "tank rooms" where they would soak the person in a whirlpool tub so the outer layer of burnt/dead skin could slough off and be easier to scrape off. Very painful, very horrifying to everyone involved. One place I could never work is a burn ward. Because of concerns regarding infection some places now use streams of water or hoses for this purpose instead of tanks of water.

But Motts is correct that they did not do this at developmental centers but rather at regular or specialized medical centers.

No, sounds like a real specialized piece of equipment that would only be found in a burn unit of a general hospital... although I have explored a few, most of my excursions take place in psychiatric / developmental centers.

Motts, have you ever come across a "burn tub" (not sure the proper term for it). They were used to help burn victims by using airiated water jets to gently remove the burnt skin/flesh. My uncle was burnt very very badly when the gas station he owned went up in the late 50's early 60's and they used a tub that did that. Maybe Lynne can help with a proper name.

What kind of meds do they take?