1,846 Comments for Linton State Hospital

Looks like a larger version of a water birth tub!

Often times when a place is owned by the government the cost of getting large kitchen equiptment out is more than they would re-coup by auctioning it off so it's more cost effective to let it rot. We do military base explorations and usually there's lots of kitchen stuff left behind because they didn't want to haul it out.

I admit the temptation to take something is pretty huge when you're actually standing there all alone. We did an exploration of an abandoned Cold War base and some of the fixtures in the buildings were just SO cool. Did not take anything though, stuck to the code.

Cool lighting! Scary looking machine though...looks like you could lose some fingers in there when it was running...

I visited my grandmother in hospital in Essex when I was 5 yrs old in1942. In the same ward there were these Iron lungs. Very frightening to me at that age

Hello Tom, I have been using this site as a source for a small project. It has been very helpful to opening my eyes about iron lungs and such. In order to give you proper credit for this website, I need a first and last name which I cannot seem to find. Can you please comment back as soon as possible. Thank you
Susie

mayyybe you could put some of that soap into a.... SOAP DESPENSER!!!
hahaha sorry i had to! ^.^

Its a 60's era eureka roto matic canister, 60 inches of vacuum pressure is actually what this machine will pull if you put a gauge to it.. My only guess is they switched it on and off to achieve negative/positive vacuum pressure.

I notice that there are pictures of their loved ones taped to the iron lung. How sad.

This place is super-weird. Love these pictures.

as a few other people mentioned, all I can think of seeing pictures of this thing is The Mangler.

I cant stop laughing! someone noted that this was used by patient 4 Sex, Holy Moses! in a TB hospital??????

Wow, looks....uh....comfy....

Thanks for the visual, though!

Oh, and BTW, Frank is a tool. ;)

LMFAO! Hilarious comments! :-D

On another note, damn I hope I never need traction, at least not in THAT thing!