832 Comments for The Ladd School

What are you asking Alice? Are you asking what they are? If so "suicide screens" as they have been called were mesh panels installed on the sides of staircases to prevent patients (not just suicidal but all patients) from jumping over the edge and falling to their death or getting a serious injury. They are not too common in modern hospitals because of the use of elevators and better stair design. Here is a photo Motts took to give you a better idea:

http://www.opacity.us/image5256_stairwell.htm

Suicide Screens? anyone, just wonderin

They were made of wood.

Were they wooden or metal is my question...

decubiti, oh my. Look this up in Google images. YIPES! Don't do so while eating or just after if you're the queazy type.

Looks like someone had a bad case of "TF" terminal flattulance

Here are some great examples of adaptive equipment from various companies and various countries. You can actually see how it is used:

http://www.cerebralpal...?iType=426&iAd=8

http://www.freedomwheelchairs.org/sponsor.htm

http://www.dinf.ne.jp/...15005s3/z1500520.htm

http://www.unitedrehabwaco.com/clients.asp

http://www.abledata.co...=19327&top=13124

Yes I have, it was quite a fantastic morgue and a tough place to access (without permission). Apologies for editing the location, its been getting quite a bit of unneeded attention lately IMO.

My daughter had to use something very similar to this when she was smaller. Surgeries (many) have helped. And Lynne is right, it is a real work out just to get out of bed.

The particularly disturbing thing is to imagine what sort of person would lovingly wrap that toilet in a shroud of white linens

Oh, Danvers. What a shame. the really insulting thing is that they tore down that brilliant and historic example of Victorian and Gothic revivalist architecture for some shitty prefab condos

Motts, have you ever been through [edited] a bit high security for a camera crew though, as there is an operational high security hospital there

Lots of State hospitals have small morgues. The keep bodies there untilarrangements can be made with, family, and the funeral homes.

Can't have spoilage now, can we?

Perhaps they just didn't do autopsies there. If most people died of what they were expected to die from all they would need is a small morgue to hold the bodies until other arrangements were made. I was recently in a small hospital with a very similar morgue.

Nice set! Keep them coming!