667 Comments for Essex County Isolation Hospital

It's so otherworldly.

Most children don't like showers (at least not until about the age of seven). It's also easier to assist a person with a bath than with a shower--showers tend to get the assistant wet as well as the bather--and tub baths lessen the danger of a fall. As for more sinks than tubs, while only one person could bathe at a time, two could easily brush teeth or wash hands at the same time.

What is the difference between a generator and a turbine? In the summer of 2001, I went to the community open house held by a local power plant. We watched an informational film and took a tour, then went to a picnic lunch in the parking lot, all free. The computerized control room (not the actual room, but a replica they use for training and demonstration). To a non-engineering/electrical person like me, it looked so intimidating! Then we put on hard hats and toured the plant, looking at the turbines, cooling towers, rail siding, coal storage area (they have a device that pick up the entire railroad car hauling coal and dumps it onto the storage pile), dock for barges on the river, a huge crane (I think they said there were only a handful that size in the world), etc. They discussed all the scrubbers, etc. used to reduce air pollution. But with all that, I don't remember what the difference is between a generator and a turbine. The tour I was part of turned out to be the last one held, because after 9/11 a few months later, letting the general public have that kind of access was deemed a national security risk.

MVH I could not have said it better... I'm 27 but I feel that the world would be a much better place without all the technology. Yes, I love my computer, Internet, video games modern medical equipment, vehicles, cell phones, ipods, etc. but I think that the world relies waaaay to much on all this junk....aside from the medical advances. Yes, it has made our lives so much more simple and better in some aspects but we are now enclosed in our own little boxes.

Why, why, why was he down there?
This seems a place to find a disease, not treat one.

Darkness consumes... creepy.

WOW

wonder what was v on those slides!!

Nice eerie shot! Too bad it isn't in wide screen format because it'd be nice to have it as a 1440x900 wallpaper on my 22" LCD.

I would get up and walk being left in that mess.

Chilling!

It looks like a chip-fryer basket lol

Whats the obsession with dried blood?
You know people mopped hospital floors all those years ago, just like they do now!

People equate todays litigeous post 9/11 world with days gone past.

Things were ALOT less regulated back then and people just didn't hink others would be corrupt and immoral enough to do things illegal or sue over things like discarded files,evenof a sensitive nature.
Technology is a double edged sword. Sometimes I think we were better off before it...

Slowly backing out of room with out taking eyes off of creepy door...