oh come on folk....No Smoking....EXPLOSIVES! storage for the really slow.

Why does anyone need a peep-hole to look into a morge???

Well... Motts, I beg to differ. Please notice that the riser/down pipe in the middle of the group of valves has a pipe plug on the top and there is no ID tag.
Directly above is a "device", it appears to be an old Spirax-Sarco steam pressure reducing valve. If you rotate the pipe on the top of the "device"from the 7 O'Clock position as it is in your photo, to the 3 O'Clock position the out-put port would line up with the middle down-port. I wish the picture was a little bit larger as I am sure the main steam feed would have been observed. After all that....MOTTS you are great, keep them coming!!!
I surmise that what we are looking at is a steam pressure reducing and distribution system. As facilities reduced in size, many just abandoned systems to un-needed facilities, as evidence by the pipe plug.

This room is NOT what it seems...notice, the drain from the sink runs a good 6 feet until it goes into the wall. The small steam radiator is too small to haet a room that size that has water in it. I think this room was originaly a service room, linen storage or something.

Probably an outside door. Raised threshold to keep the rain out and extra height to allow for equipment delivery, ( beds, tubs and other "stuff" ).

These colors are classic mental health colors. The jail that I worked at used these colors until 2010. Pinks were thought to be calming, Greens were for those with hard-core mental issues and Blues were thought to help those with mental retardation. FYI, Reds and Yellows, were thought to be very agitating. This was all de-bunked in the 1990's.

Look at the thickness of the outside walls, this place was built to last AND to withstand the elements.

Epansion loop, the longer the run the more expansion takes place making the pipes loner. To prevent damage a small expansion loop is install which will absorb the exspansion.

Straight air conditioning unit, filter housing, inverted A-coil, blower and controls. Refrigerant lines are obvious. No electric or other sources of heat shown.

You would be surprised by how many people actually died in the mourge as opposed to the hospital.

Heat exchangers, five it looks like, steam to hot water, condensate pump (steam operated) at the end of the room. Nice IR shot.

MOTTS,

PLEASE, MORE POWERPLANT PHOTOS

PLEASE

Heat exchangers, look inside. The coils carried water, the outside of the coils, (the jacket), is filled with high pressure steam.

Blessed Be

Uncle Steve

Yes indeed, it is a fire-eye. The user and the eye were kept safe by a stream of compressed air which was aimed at the lense which kept it cool..

Blessed Be,

Uncle Steve,

Motts.

Once again I beg you, as a Stationary Engineer, Please give us more pictures of the INSIDE of the power plants and other Mechanical areas.


PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

Blessed Be,
Uncle Steve

A standard Symmons High flow-Low flow tempering valve installation.
The missing parts, which would have been where you see the double screw holes would have been a pressure reducing valve and a pressure gauge. Such set-ups are still common today.

Judging from the piping on the sides of the tub and the oversized drainage outlets that this tub was probably one of the first hydrotherepy divices.

Very nice, The objects at the top of the doors that have conduit leading to them are magnetic locks, I didn't know that they had them that far back.

It looks like the remnants of a Brodrick green soap dispensor minus the plastic bottle.

That is a Powers Shower Tempering valve, so a box of oder sorb would not be uncommom in an institutional shower area.

This is indeed a bedpan sterilizer. It is designed to clean and sterilize only bedpans. Notice the insulated pipe to the left of the unit. That is a live steam pipe, the method of sterilization. The small dark tube to the right of the that pipe is a water pipe, used to clean the bedpan before sterilization. No question, a bedpan sterilizer.

That needle pegged at 340 psig but to be damaged like that it must have been subjected to a minimum of 10% over pressure..ie 380 psig. That would have been a scarey shift for the boilerman.