420 Comments for Adonia State Hospital

ah boy..
I'm walking side-ways now..

They are calling Dr. Moe, Dr. Larry, and Dr. Curly.

Wierd - ass hall.

Back in the 50's when my aunt had an arrested case of TB part of the treatment was to not drain the spagetti too thoroughly

Grand Hotel.

The scientists at my 1st job (lab) used to warn me not to use the elevator when bringing back dry ice;use the stairs.
The dry ice would sublime,pushing the oxygen out of the way should the elevator break-down (as they often did)

George Washington slept there.



I'd sleep there.

You have to spit( Preferably on some one) or kiss or live in close proximity to have contagion with TB. Yesteryears virus were not as strong or clever (yes,viruses have feelings too) as the ones today.These viruses have fallen and can't get up.

Working for the IRS one would find thier medical coverage to be lacking.None the less they forward your med recs to your supervisor.A co-worker(at that time)told me his supervisor came running over to him and blurted-out;"What are you doing here?!you're a sick man!!" So much for medical confidentiality, I guess.

1971 rough year

Depends where you go or work, nature of the place, whose file you read under what circumstances.Some doc accounts will make you rub your eyes, shake your head and say 'Wha Tha!!" or "Oh Man!!!"

I've been fired a couple of times for copying things I shouldn't have.
But I will say this: just leaving shit behind open like this after the fact is a disgrace.
Its' like the time this video rental place behind where I was living went out of business, and ,as I would say, it was the WAY they went out.They were in there every night with the lights on as if they were open but they were not.After that by a few weeks they threw everything out and just let the people's file cards blow all over the street for everyone to see. Disgrace.
In office today they scan info onto disc,but the docs are shipped to a place that specializes in holding on to them for 7 years.

Oh yeah, nearly forgot. That color on the walls, that sickly minty greenie yellow? That color reminds me of the hand soap they had at the school for the blind here in KC it was this weird liquid stuff and it was either green or pink. Yuck. Anyway, was this like the intended color of the walls or is that some major molde going on there? Maybe as this room is next to the lab with all the TB cultures, the cultures have gotten free and now live on the wall? J/K

Wow. That's. Well? That's something.
I really don't know what to say. That is the kind of picture you've got to sit with for a while...
I wonder who was the person to last sleep in that bed prior to the building/hospital emptying out? It's funny really. One morning somebody got up out of that bed and then... That was the end, they never came back, so there the bed has sat for years and years and years.

If anyone is still interested in patient file related things, Geoffrey Reaume has written a book by the name of Remembrance of Patients Past, which uses case files from 1880-1920 or so to give a more humanized history of the Toronto State Hospital (with pseudonyms to protect peoples' identity). Its a bit hard to get a hold of, but a library could probably get a copy through interlibrary lone.

The other thing with actual case files (and I've done some research with 19th century ones) is that by and large they tend to be written by people who were doing so as part of their job, and in order to maintain concise records for future treatment. Consequently, even the most interesting things in them tend to be conveyed in a somewhat sparse style (sentence fragments, brief notes, etc) which often comes across as incredibly detached. That said, some of it *is* quite interesting (though nothing nearly as exciting as the "files" that show up in, say, Session 9), but there's also a marked difference between reading the files of people who have been dead over a century (and who may well have left no other record) and those of people who may even still be with us.

All that said, I can also read enough of the cards in this photo to see that there's nothing especially interesting written down on them.

Its a SOAP DISPENSER !!!!!!!!!

Fascinating and creepy.

Haunting, absolutely haunting.

it makes you think. very compromising positioning. very well done. a favourite.

Another lonley chair shot...... I love them!!!!