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Styrofoam

I'm not sure what these held, but they were labeled with the patient's name and date.
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im not sure exactly, but they could be cups the patients used to spit mucus in.
anna
Wed 03-23-2005
Its a drinking cup. Big handle for easy gripping. There would be a lid that fits over it with a sort of spout so liquid would come out just by tipping it a bit. Like a giant sippy cup for grown-ups
Kate
Sat 03-26-2005
He He!.........SIPPY CUP!
JAVA
Sun 05-29-2005
Last time I was in a hospital they provided patients with styro pitchers like these for water. Have no idea why they dated them though...
Mnementh
Fri 06-10-2005
They dated them because they knew 40 years from them, some curious explorers would wonder why. :)
Cyrus
Tue 06-14-2005
Let's try to do research on these names and see what we can come up with?
Hedy
Wed 07-13-2005
This place looks like itas been toor up.
But I know that this place is hauted.
Tyler branham
Sun 12-18-2005
Pitchers...

dated .... would probably get new ones once in a while...

Apparently once a month since there is no day.

Which is still kinda gross

Once a week maybe ... but once a month is pushing it.
Smurfy
Mon 05-22-2006
Is it necessarily a date? Perhaps a group number, for medication purposes perhaps? "No Mr Ronckowitz, you're only allowed 4, you don't get no more"
Felyne
Wed 09-20-2006
Those are sputum cups; they're for the expectorate that TB patients cough up. They would have been disposed with by burning or else possibly used for specimen slides to test the "germ count" on each patient. Your sputum had to be free of TB bacilli for a certain number of months before you could be considered cured or arrested, and released.
Medical Historian
Sun 10-08-2006
These were water pitcers for drinking.Everything had names on it so that your roommate didnt get the wrong picher when they filled them.Back in the day they would reuse the pichers for water.Sputem cups were much smaller.They dated them so that they could be sure to use clean ones every so often weekly or monthly i forget which.
Mary
Sat 10-28-2006
Definitely pitchers. Notice the large handle and spout? There are also the lids lying about. Looks like they changed them once a month probably due to low funds. Remember, they weren't as cleanly then as we are now.
Heather
Sat 10-06-2007
The styrofoam will probably still be there when everything else has turned into piles of rust...
Amanda
Thu 02-28-2008
A testament to the staying powers of Styrofoam, and how inherently evil it is. Worse to think that they would have incinerated these cups to dispose of them, as opposed to throwing them away - as if their presence here isn't bad enough! To think, all the things we've learned since then ...
CataclysmicStar
Wed 04-30-2008
Styrafoam gets gnasty after a while, therefore dating would be good.
At my old job, we gave refills but there were people whom worked at the mall and would re-use styrafoam cups. After awhile we got smart and wrote dates on every refill we made. This pissed the workers off greatly.
Lump
Wed 04-30-2008
Oh, I thought thats what the patients pee'd in.
John
Sat 07-19-2008
So much for patient confidentiality. That would be a medical taboo into today's society. I absolutely love these sites about abandoned buildings. They seem to hide a myriad of secrets.
Colleen
Mon 08-17-2009
So, styrofoam does last forever...
pumpkinprincess1979
Wed 09-23-2009
I would have to think that these are for patient sputum...and not for drinking...unless they were giving medicine in liquid form perhaps? But at any rate, these cups have tops, which makes me think that whatever is inside is not as benign as just water....maybe it was like a sample cup the patient was supposed to use to get phlem samples...that would explain the date more rationally than a "dated" drinking cup...
Taylor
Fri 08-20-2010
I could be wrong but I think Ronckowitz was a misspelled last name. If you Google it the only site that pops up is from Felyne's comment above.
hmmmmm
Meri
Tue 01-18-2011
Those are drinking water pitchers. The Styrofoam kept the ice & water cold. I damn near killed myself on a motorcycle back in 1973 & spent 28 days in the hospital. They changed the pitchers everyday and put the last name & date on them.
Larry D
Wed 11-02-2011

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