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This seclusion room door is set in to create a sound proof seal when closed, and has a thick glass window... nothing else.
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Probably for all those patients who could not keep quiet.
Giovanna
Wed 07-13-2005
Was the room painted blue or was it day light coming in making it look that way.
The colors are fantastic in this picture!
silkster40z
Sun 07-17-2005
I still dont understand how they can open the door without handles and it cant be a swing door because then the patient cane get out really easily.
Kime
Fri 01-06-2006
Kime: The patient side (shown) of the door would not have a handle, but the employee side (the back of what we can see) would have had a handle.
Sketch
Mon 01-09-2006
ok...was this just a different angle ...becauase i know this is the same pic with the bed in ...this pic gives me the creeps...but i love that!
Jen
Tue 03-14-2006
I need to put my sister in here when she argues with her b/f.
jdarkqueen
Sun 05-21-2006
How depressing; how sad. What those poor people must have went through!
Nancy
Thu 06-01-2006
Yes, It's truly sad that people with mental problems were taken somewhere where they could receive specialized care and treatment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
CAS
Thu 06-01-2006
Not every hospital, even today can give you the BEST in specialized care. My brother died from mental illness and I wish he could have found a great place with "specialized care".
Nancy
Tue 06-13-2006
Metal illneses may lead to suicide or ill person can died because he/she do not eat or ate something inedible but we cannot tell someone "died from mental illness" I think, beside acute catatonia states of course.
Nif
Tue 08-15-2006
Nice room. I should make one for my brother when he annoys me.
Sensei
Sat 01-13-2007
Ten bucks says that the alleged "sound proof seal" didn't work too well.
Amy
Mon 03-26-2007
I dont think its the same room as the one with the bed in it, this door doesnt have the "big ass hole" the other one did, lol.
Now this pic reminds me again of Dachau...they had little windows like this door has...
terie5
Sun 06-08-2008
I really need to stop looking at these pictures while listening to music of the creepy/sad/sober sort. The song of Tristram (Blizzard/Diablo/Town) seems to click quite well with the visuals.
ParadoxEngine
Mon 02-16-2009
So if the gate infront of the window is to bring air in then what is it doing above the door also. .
In The Wind
Mon 09-12-2011
The transom window above the door provides cross-ventilation, common in places built before air conditioning was widely used.
Motts
Mon 09-12-2011

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