2,646 Comments for Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital

I love my house...as soon as I saw this pic I was like...Oh My Goodness....What a bloody waste. My house just turned 100. I love every pic you have done (Or I have seen) so far..Lovely

I wore one of these on both legs with both feet suspended 8 inch above the ground

OMG THAT IS HYSTERICAL!!! HAHAHAHAHA!

Mr. Motts that is a wonderful picture of you.

looks like something in a horror movie beautiful shot

i wonder it they used the young pacients for that... weird... really weird...

that a great autoclave but nothing compares to byberrys giant autoclave it was great to toughen carbon items lol :P

wow that would make some interesting reading..

castle also made generators? i thought they only did autoclaves and medical equipment

creepy... greetings from portugal ;)

I, too, feel sad looking at it thinking that maybe the child who wore this didn't make it out of there. Before the discovery of streptomycin they performed numerous exploratory surgeries to help the patients: Most of which didn't make it through it. The ones who did were left crippled. Look up pneumothorax. It was a procedure that involved removing ribs to relieve pressure on the lungs. I believe something like 5% of the patients even survived it.

Good one! Fresh air was believed to help TB patients. Most TB hospitals had open air solariums where patients spent most of their time. At Waverly Hills the patients slept on porches with snow on the foot of their beds!

This place is a children's TB hospital. There are other pictures of it on the web.

Definitely pitchers. Notice the large handle and spout? There are also the lids lying about. Looks like they changed them once a month probably due to low funds. Remember, they weren't as cleanly then as we are now.

Yeah, it separates. Red blood cells turn black and the plasma is gooey and yellow. That's with air contact. The substance in question is sealed, but to what degree? I believe blood is possible. They weren't as careful about disposing hazardous waste then as they are now. It's apparent by what was left inside the building to rot that it was a reckless abandonment. If it is in fact blood, why not tainted blood?