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Hmm... someone seemed to push thousands of pounds of paperwork into this solarium, then they seem to have been set on fire at some point. The amount of paper in here is incredible, it's almost waist deep at some places, and packed down hard enough to walk on without falling through.

Some things in the pile: EMS training instructions, financial and other paperwork for a nearby hospital, court orders for homicides and stabbing cases, and EMS transcripts from patients admitted because of violent crimes or accidents.
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wow...
Mike @ hv.org
Wed 03-23-2005
now this is a totally mind boggling picture
anna
Wed 03-23-2005
awwwwwwwww no more pictures :-(
anna
Wed 03-23-2005
Looks like my office, only i have less lighting
Kate
Sat 03-26-2005
Heh, actually the room is almost pitch black, I took several exposures of me lighting various parts of the room with my flashlight.
Motts
Mon 03-28-2005
This looks like the amount of paperwork I need to do to register for classes each semester.
DevilishSaint
Wed 03-30-2005
Awsome shot man!!!!!!! so far my fav of the series
GAK
Wed 03-30-2005
shit that is alot of papers 4 one room
rich
Mon 04-18-2005
Incredible
sigma
Tue 04-19-2005
Amazing shot. Brilliant work, taking multiple exposures with the flashlight. What I am wondering...what are homicide files doing in a TB hospital?
Mystwict@aol.com
Mon 05-16-2005
It's all just old paperwork from other hospitals in the area, I don't know why they didn't dispose if it properly.
Motts
Mon 05-16-2005
Reminds me of a small-town newspaper I worked at long ago. They took all the ruined newsprint from the begining of press runs, calibrations, etc. and tossed it into a steel machine shed. By the time I worked there the shed was filled halfway to the ceiling with newspapers. Apparently nobody was willing to recycle TONS of paper without being paid and heaven forbid that they'd do THAT! -_-
Mnementh
Fri 06-10-2005
Seems Very disrespectful, if any patient files are in that mess
Ed
Sun 06-12-2005
Were there any patient files Motts?
Cyrus
Tue 06-14-2005
I would love to sit down and read everything in that mess A Sunday afternoon would be nice
Jan
Wed 06-29-2005
Scary and chaotic.
derelict sensation
Tue 08-23-2005
Forget patient files... did anyone think to check if there were PATIENTS under there? I hope the floor is strong. And, it looks like somebody dumped all this stuff there and is patiently waiting for it all to just... go away.
StacyMarie
Tue 09-27-2005
I looked at this, and all I thought was "Eww... bet there's rats in there."
Outsdr
Tue 10-25-2005
They look like they've been wet at some time, making them harder to read.

A pity.
Puddleboy
Sat 10-29-2005
I believe I saw something similar at Forgotten Ohio.
Hobo Shane
Mon 12-26-2005
huge waste. i hate waste of paper - think about the trees.
and also think about how much money would id be worth sold for recycling
simon
Tue 02-21-2006
This is a amazing pic.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i would love to go around readong some of the pappers...id hang them on my wall HAH!
Jen
Wed 03-15-2006
this is really sad that they would just leave files behind to rot especially if those are patients files.
reader24
Tue 04-04-2006
was it just easier to leave everything than to destroy it?? it just seems that in these large facilities that they would have either 1) sold the equipment, and 2) shredded the paper work, were they just willing to spend the time doing it???
rtotten
Sat 04-08-2006
I seriously doubt they ever thought this photo would appear on the internet.
Puddleboy
Sun 04-09-2006
Wish you would have taken some pics of some documents.
Jess
Wed 04-12-2006
THATS nuckin futs O_O
IOTB
Sun 04-16-2006
I'm laughing so hard my sides hurt. This is just nuts.
GrandDuchess
Mon 04-24-2006
So much for HIPAA.
Jamara
Wed 05-10-2006
Worst job in the world #120: Cleaning this room up. :-)
Scarlett77
Sat 05-13-2006
Can you believe that a hospital would walk off and leave your whole medical history for the world to see?!
Tara
Fri 06-02-2006
Yes, I can believe that, Tara. Does anyone care anymore? Would love to just spend a little time on all that paperwork; just for curiosity.
Nancy
Tue 06-13-2006
the world angers me... OF COURSE there are patient files in there. they tried to burn it at some point... i hate hospitals... so many dirty secrets left to rot.
Kelsy
Fri 06-23-2006
Doesn't Cas just know it all? This is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Urban explorer
Sat 08-05-2006
That is insane!!!!!!!!
silly1
Sun 08-06-2006
haha Puddleboy "I seriously doubt they ever thought this photo would appear on the internet."

"Hey Bob, you know all that paper you were supposed to take to the recycler... you did that, right? Normally I wouldn't ask but I was visiting this site...."
Felyne
Wed 09-20-2006
*sob!* This just makes my life so much harder! There are lots of archives that would have been thrilled to take on files like these. This has happened all over the place. When the Ellis Island Hospital closed they turned off the lights and walked away. 20 years later people reported seeing patient charts blowing all over the island. Now it is impossible to know who passed through there or what really happened...
Medical Historian
Sun 10-08-2006
Thats some valueable history in there... imagine all the answers that could lie in that pile.
Night
Mon 10-23-2006
wow that is amazing.. think of the stories and lives that are explained in that room....wow
inspired TB researcher
Mon 10-23-2006
Scattred sub-basements bring fortune to those who seek beneith the surface
Virgil.
Wed 12-06-2006
My mind ,your mind..........
Czayger
Wed 01-10-2007
thats unbelievable. makes my fathers desk look neat. but that is a very odd way to try and dispose of all that paper, since you say it had been set on fire at one point. its very odd, but makes for an incredible picture.
katie
Wed 01-17-2007
my girlfriend is a photographer she will love these i would love to visit this place. I used to go to many abandoned places. let me know if there's some good places like this in PA or in Ohio
pacman
Sat 03-24-2007
does anyone know how long tuberculosis actually lives in a building after it is vacated?????
daphne
Mon 04-16-2007
thats a big version of my filing cabinet
green eyed lady
Wed 04-25-2007
omg papers lol if i had the time I would of gone through some of hem probably some interesting story’s in there
Dean
Sat 07-28-2007
wow that would make some interesting reading..
Ricardo Chaveiro
Sun 10-07-2007
this looks like a room we came across in the red cross hospital in Taplow
dso films London
Tue 11-27-2007
This picture makes me want to cry.. I'd probably sit there and read it all or get a bull dozer to carry all the papers to my car... What a waste of history.
Aki
Thu 12-20-2007
im barried under all that!!!!!!!! GET ME OUT!!!
ghost
Thu 01-17-2008
woo stabbing cases

creepy
Ducky
Wed 01-23-2008
I would hate to have to clean that mess up.
D.J
Sat 01-26-2008
Looks like me when I have to do taxes! Great gallery, thanks.......
Amazed
Sun 03-02-2008
that I thought would be spocky but now I saw all the pictures it is not scary at all!!
Katie
Fri 03-21-2008
*Jumps up and down on the paper* haha
Lauren
Wed 04-02-2008
Out of all your shots so far, Motts, this is the one into which I would most like to be inserted - just so I have the privilege of saying that I've seen thousands of pounds of paper at once.
Tippy Typewriter
Tue 07-01-2008
thats alot of lives that has been touched, wow
cynthia
Fri 08-08-2008
i know ppls privacy is a big issue, but using all the medical information to possibly learn more about TB or any other disease a patient there could've been inflicted with would have been great... I think it's a horrible waste....
lil t
Sat 10-18-2008
wow.........
mrsloureed
Tue 11-04-2008
Thank God for modern computers and external hard drives.
Tom
Mon 12-01-2008
good luck finding the papers you need in tht conglomeration!
J.D. loverr
Sat 12-20-2008
That makes me sad for some reason
Bean
Sun 12-21-2008
That'd be overwhelming when you're in there.

I'd be interested to sit down and read a bit.
Malice
Thu 02-26-2009
Wow, this is very interesting; I'd love to look through some of those.
JakePA
Sat 06-27-2009
It would appear that this was common practice in those kind of settings...
Misty Issel
Mon 11-09-2009
I'd love to visit there and just read the history of random people . . . . why on earth would they set fire to it?
Sabrina
Fri 09-17-2010
Y on earth would there be paper work for court orders for homicides and stabbing cases don’t you think that should be in a court house and not left too root....my god wonder if they are unsolved cases? i hope not if the are hope there family’s don’t find out...... good sot keep up the good work.
JanuaryHoneyBee
Tue 09-21-2010
clean your room or you will not be able to play in the morgue
tom b
Wed 02-16-2011
lol!! i love the 4th comment!!
colin
Mon 03-14-2011
I bet all this paper weighed a TON! Surprising the floor held up all these years. Oh, BTW, cockroaches love environments like this. =8-O
Larry D
Sun 03-20-2011
holy crap!!!
emzroz
Mon 01-02-2012
wow....i wonder why this paperwork wasnt maybe destroyed instead of just left................i admit..id like to read alot of these documents
ati64
Wed 02-08-2012

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