Lamp With Pullstring

I love these lamp shots. Still a mystery to what went on under the light of them.

Probably reading

From the height it's mounted on the wall, I'd assume it was there for the patient to get some light above his/her bed.

During a long hospital stay, reading is one of the most entertaining things to do...

Pixar hell.

Were these in patient rooms? If so, they were the overbed lighting.

if only these lamps could talk, and tell us stories about how it was so long ago....

As i said earlier these lamps are hella dangerous ,i'm sure patients would try to neck themselves with the long,strong lead.I've been to the phyc ward and things like this are totally banned.DG...

The hospital that I worked in from 1971-1977 had this type of light. They were for use by the patients. Sometimes we would use them on patients that had decubitus ulcers= Ulcers of the body covering areas of bony prominence. Specifically as applies to bed fast patients. We would roll the patients on their stomachs and take the dressings off and allow the slight heat from the light to dry out the area before we redressed them. In people speak these are bed-sores. Dr's did examine patients with them, but if they really wanted to examine something in detail we took the patient to another room with better lighting or carried better lighting to the patient.