2,646 Comments for Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital

What if the telephone is on fire?

This is an incredible website!! I have become nothing less than obsessed since I found it.

I have heard that they may be in the process of restoring the tile pix, Have you heard anyhting about this Motts?

That is how I'd love my bathroom to be done!

You go to a lot of abandoned places.. do you ever take souvenirs, because I know some of these items have got to be worth something.

Epic Fail?? Maybe but its still disturbing and creepy. I like it!! XD

Hey Lynne I read ur thing on the crib picture and I have to say thank you, I often end up in these places. People need to know that funding is getting bad for institution such as for Rainbow (State Hospital). Rainbow just closed down one of the patient wings, and our gov. does not care I try to speak out cause I, myself end up in these places and when I go I want to make sure that none of the past histories don't repeat itself.

Wow thanks for explaining that - not just a call button, but also a way to ensure the nurses were doing their jobs in some sense. Could have gotten pretty annoying on a hectic day though...

This is an Edwards annunciator panel. There were 4 lights...A, B, C and D. If a switch was flipped in an area, it's corresponding light would come on and a buzzer sound would be heard at this station. The nurse could flip the switch on the station to silence the buzzer. When she responds to the call, she cancels the call in the room by flipping the switch off. This extinguishes the light on this panel and causes the buzzer to ring again. When she returns to the nurse station, she flips the switch on the front of the annunciator back to silence the buzzer, and the system is now ready for another call.

Usually only in inner-city places with easy access to get inside the building; this particular hospital had a bit of an aggressive security force, so it wasn't a viable home for anyone.

wow that is a cooling table for the dead see the holes in it that was so the ice below would cool the body down many years ago i never seen one with weels

I bet all this paper weighed a TON! Surprising the floor held up all these years. Oh, BTW, cockroaches love environments like this. =8-O

@ Mitch. No. Blood Borne Pathogens have a life span depending on the substance. For example, HIV will live only a few seconds outside a live human body unless kept under strict laboratory conditions. The Hepatitis B virus can live outside a living, human body, dried, at room temperature, for up to fourteen days. So after all this time, all deadly critters in that vile are long gone.

I bet those hardwood floors shined beautifully once upon a time.

This would make a great wallpaper.