that machine is an autoclave. it used steam from the boiler room to sterilize surgical equipment and glass. This one has the steam ports still visible and the drain port for the condensate water that collected in the bottom.

Sara, everyone who gets caught in the building get arrested. There have been something like 30 arrests in the last few years.
FYI it's still mostly there. the town is still arguing about what to do with it.

in the Queen's english, would internal use also refer to the interior of the structure? could these be poisons used to control various vermin or insects?

well, I'm 68 from Hanson. close enough?

So let me get this straight. You're in a boarded up and posted building with a history of problems, You stole items from the building, and the neighbors are
assholes? I think you have a few morality issues...

When the county was using the basement room for a communications center, one of my buddies was a radio operator. They worked shifts alone in the building. He saw shadows and movement and heard lots of voices from the hallways.

in the hospital I worked in, we used to put equipment packs together with all the usual tools needed for one operation and sterilize whole trays of the packs at once. You would chemically soak all the steel tools first, then wrp them in green surgical cloth and label them with a special tape that changed colors when it had been put in the autoclave. That one used live steam to sterilize the packs.

check out teaguefirephoto.com to see the pictures of the fires.

It looks alot like the really old powered anesthesia machines.

the Soapboxes are the backsides of overturned lockers. Vandals, Goths, Visigoths and an occaisional Hun have run rampant through this gorgeous old building. Too bad we can't shoot 'em. I do know some of the cooler stories from this place...

The main building still stands. If a good use isn't found for it soon it will fall to the big ball.

for BD- the wierd thing in the bathroom was a bedpan cleaner. You put in the full badpan, closed it and when you pulled the handle it flushed and rinsed the pan. Only real old nurses and orderlies would remember those.

Actually the third part would be it's closing in 1990, The county used it for some storage and communications for a while and completely abandoned the building around 1995. It was sold to the town for cheap in 2000 and has been the subject of a lot of political bs since. Many area student nurses trained here during their pulmonary term.