4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

@NicotineAndGravy,That's a fire/smoke detector.

That looks like a relatively new security camera up there. Or a very ugly light fixture?

lovin the lone tub shot. i agree wheres the soap dispenser?

To think that someone spent alot of hours sitting in that chair. There must be a lot of secrets that chair is keeping

Life out side a dreery room

Cool mirroring, both with the water and door and because the colored panels are opposite each other.

Not odd at all to find in a gym of a psychiatric hospital! I worked at a rehab that had a psych ward as well, and some of the patients with anger issues were in the gym next to the physical therapy room whenever they felt the need to express it.

My aunt was dememed mentally insane after a run in with drugs in high school (she got the mental illness form her father). My grandmother put her in an asylum and after awhile OKed her to recieve EST. She isn't institutionalized anymore and lives a near normal life, complete with a job and a spoiled cat ^^. She does make the most delusious cookies though.

I agree the picture looks later than 72. Those patterned panties look more 80s, and jogging bras were all the rage in the early 80s.

Yeah, it looks like a photo to document abnormal posturing. I've taken them myself during physical therapy. (other people's physical therapy, not mine....) They're pretty routine and you end up taking quite a few to document changes.

The white stuff on the floor in the picture looks like patterned linoleum.

We still use "giant baby beds" like these--at the rehab I used to work with they were called "high-rail beds". They're not to keep people IN--they're to make sure that people who are unsteady walkers aren't able to get out of bed half-awake, say to go to the bathroom, and take a nosedive. The one's for confused people have taller rails (you can sit up in them) and have tops.

I second a face--my brain keeps trying to interperate that door beyond it as a nose.

Perhaps they had more baby diapers left BECAUSE they had less call for them?

BTW, I used to work in a medical rehab and some of the wheelchair bound women used to use baby diapers in the place of maxipads, because they were easier to get into position under you if you can't stand. It can be hard for women with paralysis to tell when things are in the right position down there or if things have shifted. Bigger pad = less likely a mess.

Yeah, the colors and play of light are amazing! Great shot!

I love the side enterance thingies on each side of the stage. They almost look like giant, old fireplaces. This must have been stunning new. Such a shame...

I used to work in a medical rehab--that mattress in the foreground is the type for old adjustable beds. You know, the kind you can elevate the head or foot. It has to strap to the frame so it doesn't slide down or flop forward if it's up all the way.

And you know, just because all the beds are in this one place now doesn't mean they all were when the place was in use...