1,944 Comments for Worcester State Hospital

Looks like capacitors and series switches used to perform electro-shock therapy.

i wonder, like... if you started a chat with some bloke sitting right next to you?..

The shinning, with the boiler at the end. That's what this reminds me of.

Reminds me of "Johnny #5"

Not to bring up a tired subject, but if you were to sell calenders of your work, you might be able to get enough to buy a real nice zoom lens. ;)

Has anyone read Nellie Bly's "10 Days in a Mad House"? Now that kind of clean up rivals communal showers with hose downs, Mr. Motts...

hooha,
Thanks for your imput! I appreciate all patient views best. It makes things more human and real (considering that we are looking at ruins without voices. )
What would a seclusion room have been?
What was the difference between locked wards and back wards. Both probably were on lower levels and didn't even see stair cases like these?
Do you remember seeing stairs (ones as elaborate as these?)
I'm so glad past patients are checking out these sites: especially patients from the early sixties.
Sorry for asking so many questions-it's only for my own benefit...Had a relative incarcerated in the late 1940's-mid 1960's, and I have a need to know....:-)

fancy a perm anyone?

Agreed Lynne

The ones in the concentration camps were very different they did not know if it was going to be gas or water they were given soap and told to wash the next time it was the gas ..

Agreed, Kaylia.

No, these particular showers are just standard communal showers, like in junior high and high schools. Frankly, they give more privacy than our shower room afforded in junior high - it was just a large communal room with shower heads hooked up to the walls and no individual stalls.
I think I remember reading or being told that for institutions the delousing liquid was put in a pail or basin and then you doused yourself or were doused with it. The cost associated with constructing delousing showers would not have been part of an institution's budget. Actually, I am not familiar with them being used anywhere but in Germany, but I am very likely wrong. Anyone else know?

I have seen the shower room at some of the concentration camps in Europe and they look nothing like this .. there were no controls inside the shower's in any of the concentration camps if yo want to state that then so be it ..

Lynne,
could the purpouse of these showers been for delousing patients?

weird. how the hell did u get into there it has so much secrity!

it looks creepy and i love it!!!!!!!!