Dude... ya got some big brass ones.

Okay, who exactly did you pray to for such calm waters? I'm in awe.

(Missed You!)

This looks like it could pass as a b/w post card

Didn't hear a thing...

That would be the ceiling on the floor.
Paint chips, curling tile and paper.
The whole thing just gives you that whole chaotic feeling.

Herr Docktah
Do not make promises you can't keep.
Else I will have to 'whip' you into shape...

;)~

I had a comment. I typed it all out, and then had to edit it at the last minute. Because I refuse to sink to that level of hell.

- Really you don't want my comments. Honestly, I don't think you could handle them. Besides, you would likely find them abusive.
Which scares me, because your fascination with abuse would likely feed this sick fantasy you have.

*clink clink* That's my 2 cents.

'umbuty 'ot a 'ishew? 'y 'ounge ish 'beeding??

Gonna have to bring in a picture of the ballroom where my dance class is.
We have stairs that lead out the window.
It's what I do with fellow classmates who have no rhythm!!!


Really.. it goes to the FIRE ESCAPE!!!!
Good gravy.

By the way.. Welcome. Glad to have ya
*takes a piece of chocolate* Thanks for sharing.

I don't believe he posted anything regarding the year built.

Considering it was a TB Hospital to start I would wager late 1800's to Early 1900's.

I'm sure he'll chime in with the answer once he sees this again.

*for Lynne*


Wow! That's Huge!! Do you think it will fit?

In that case, for a building like this you are likely correct.
We've learned a bit in regards to housing/staff ratios.

I've said it before and I will say it again. Medicine is a practice.
Unfortunately, it takes a few screw ups to learn.

WOW!

It's a pleasure to have you here visiting.
Thank you so much for coming by.

We would like to hear more about the hospital and your experiences there. If you would be so inclined to share it with us.

Dunno Lynne m'dear you must be getting confused.

I wonder if by letting it out that the deceased are moved around in the unseen places in the hospitals and that they are taken to the Morgue in the freight elevator will wind up being construed as abuse of the dead?

Maybe I'm the morbid one here.

[thump thump]

Tunnels in these buildings were indeed for transporting patients as well as the dead. Food, supplies.. heat etc.

The whole abuse thing is just too blown out of proportion.
The biggest thing that you would transport a patient for, would be to respectfully move the deceased.

Many of the living cannot deal with death, and do not deal with well. Even in whole capacity, let alone diminished capacity, which is why even in modern hospitals the dead are transported in seperate elevators, and when possible down hallways less used, that do not adjoin patient rooms.

Tunnels with no windows were also utilized as shelter durning Tornados and other disasters. To dimish flying debris such as broken glass.

When you consider that in the United States one person dies every 12 seconds. I have a feeling that shots like these won't go away.

Without arguing. I would have to disagree. I do think however to see a Morgue shot, with as much equipement in them as what has been captured here will be more and more rare.

That's a traction bed. A very OLD traction bed.
Traction was used in patients with oseteopathic injuries. Bone fractures for use lay people.
Traction is applied to help straighten long bone injuries. (Femur, Humerous)
Traction is also used in the spinal injuries.
Before we really learned that many spinal injuries were paralyzing and that there was no (and is no) real way to reverse the damage. Patients were put in traction, to help realign the spine. Mostly to help keep the discs between the bones from calcifying, or deteriorating to the point where bone would rub on bone causing the patient more pain.

For many spinal cord patients. Traction was and still is torturous. You cannot move ANYTHING. There is no turning your head, moving your wrists..nada.
A very real idea of a traction patient is believe it or not.. In a movie. Born of the 4th of July has a scene in which Tom Cruise was in a VA hospital in traction..

While much of the other goings on around it were a bit fantastical. No nurses coming to help clean up vomit. No nurses coming in to care for the patient.
(Yes.. things like that did and do happen) but not because these nurses are being cruel or intentionally mean.
What people don't realize is that nurses, like other medical care workers have to put priorities on things. Sadly, cleaning up vomit is at the bottom of the list if you have a patient not breathing. Sorry.

Since the use of this particular kind of traction table (or bed) we have learned leaps and bounds on matters of long bone and spinal cord injuries.
Unfortunately, it did have to come at the expense of comfort of some people.

Remember.. Medicine is a Practice. It is not an absolute.

Thanks Kate!

People fail to realize that the dead, whether from disease, old age or whatever, become tools that the living learn from.

We would have never learned the treatments for polio, TB, cancer, diabetes and mental illness (there are more but I won't list them all) if it weren't for the fact that people died.

The dead speak. They just have to be around the right people to hear them.
I don't mean ghosts either.
Ask any ME, and they will tell you all about what they have learned from those who are no longer living.

Considering the age of the building since it closed. It is highly unlikely that it is blood.
Blood like many other biological substances decomposes and won't leave bright, brilliant red stains.
It eventually will turn into dust or nothing at all.
Even if it was blood at one time, it would take a lot of different chemical testing on the substance, to determine wether or not it was a blood stain at one time.

Rust on the other hand, leaves a stain that does continue to show it's color after long periods of time.
What you are probably thinking is blood is probably just rust.

That's when Yaggy bit Motts and turned him into a Zombie too!

Yep. That's Yaggy, our pet Zombie. Some how and I am not quite sure how he does it.. Must be Zombie Voodoo Magic. But he lives in all the different sites tht you see pictures of.
It's only just recently that he has let anyone take a snappy of him because we were having to feed him the blood of virgins to restore his handsome good looks.
Needless to say, that took us a while, as there aren't many virgins anymore.

But no, he's not just a spirit he's been reanimated to accompany Mr. Motts everywhere for protection from all the other ghosts that live in these buildings.

It does look like an Aspirator(suction unit) and given that this was a TB facility. It makes sense to have one.
Even today it is still the most effective way to clean out the lungs and general airway.

*reaches up from beneath her Mistress' desk to touch the soapbox on the screen* Oooohhhhh...