Tub

uh-oh "red-paint"? looks like someone slipped in a slippery tub lol.

Was there supposed to be tile only around the faucet? So odd. That's the least inviting tub I've ever seen.

what an uninviting room . makes me not want to take a bath . at least not without kicking and screaming .

It looks as if the last person to use it forgot to clean their ring they left around the tub.

You're right, Jude! Calgon took her away and she forgot her ring. : )

when i see these i wonder why they are out in the open....is it because patients may have needed to be restained in the bath? or for multiple people to help them bathe. or what?? someone who knows...please speak up!

I don't know what the room looked like in this place, but in some of the places I have worked the tub has enough room around it to place a small mechanical or electrical lift (like a Hoyer lift --> http://www.apexdynamics.com/Alton.htm) next to it to help the person in and out of the tub. If ithe room was built before lifts were available then they needed enough room for several people to help the person in and out of the tub if the person was large or incapable of getting in/out without assistance. A moveable screen can be placed in front of the tub to protect privacy if others are in the room. http://www.pearsonsurg...log/img/JBC-2904.jpg

Mott's galleries are never complete without Lynnie edjukating us at least once! :-)

Thanks Lynne!

Is it just me,or does that splat of 'red paint' on the right side of the tub look like a hand-print? o-o

humm, the hair stood up on my arms, bad things happened here.

Lynne, I'm so glad you hang around here. It gives us insight to so many practices that most of us have no clue about. I always look for your posts.

And you're a font of information about a lot of the mechanical and architectural info we need. Thanks!

Mutual admiration is a good thing!

Christ, you're right. It does look like a handprint...

"Nurse Ratched? Has there been partying here?"

okay its setteld im taking a bath!!

oh and by the way nice tie in to "one flew over the cukoos nest "subcoolman!!

weren't these rooms also larger t alow for a chair or something because some patients weren't allowed to bathe w/o supervision?
yes, it does look like a hand print there...

Its all beautiful

Notice it's corners are not rounded like the Davin State tub pic.

This actually MIGHT be cleaner than my bathtub... scary.

In the earlier years at Severalls patients were often bathed one after another in the same water - to save time. Most of the baths at Severalls are in the middle of rooms, to allow nurses to bathe or assist a patient. Some baths have a lifting device at the end of them to assist patients in/out. Interestingly, many bathrooms have locks on the outside, leaving patients with (understandably) no privacy at all.

They didnt allow the locks on the inside to avoid us self harming.
We were bathed in groups of 10 --males and females together. Mr Bradley is correct, we would ALL have to bathe in the SAME water, mainly to save MONEY , but also to save time..
We were escorted by 4 or 5 regular nurses and 2 or 3 student nurses. We were taken to and from the bath area naked, so as to save time, and keep the levels of power in their control at all times.

Im giong to go and take some Dramamine now

paint my ass. it was an asylum for gods sakes. someone probably commited suicide in that tub, and think of all the people afterwards who had to bathe there. *shudder*

The red paint could be just a photoshoot that some teens or even adults did when they were bored or it was Halloween to get some cool shots.

makes me wanna take a bath

My grandfather bathed in that! I visited him all the time.

As much as it's so much cooler if the red stuff is blood, it wouldn't be red after this long. Blood gets brown when exposed to the air for a long time.

Bath time kiddies! Just ignore the floating mildew...

Doesnt this just make you want to climb into a nice hot bath !!!

its blood mother

The 'blood' on the side was me.
Me and my media group were filming the beginning of a horror movie here that we entitled 'madness in it's place'
Its fake blood...but very expensive prop blood so it looks real.
If you see any blood in these pictures it was probably us.
Thats my friend vee's handprint...we layed someone in the bath....It was a film were all the mental people have dies exept for a few...nuclear war and all that.
If people dont believe me E-mail me LipstickTracesOfButterflyKissx@hotmail.com
I have the dvd.

What a sad and absolutely horrid bathtub.

The room is so ugly and lonely.

Signed: An american Soldier in Germany.

Over all, it is a tub that nobody in their right mind would dare be in. Nice point in the photo Motts!

In old Asylems they would use "Shock Therapy" ( Cruel way of putting it) and the person wpuld be submurged in water and the would send electick shocks into the water, in the end they were so burnt up that they had to wrap the person from head to toe in bandages...umm...yeah...just thought you might want to know that maybe thats what happened here...maybe.

large open bathing rooms were quite common (and still are) as it wa easier to have one big tub to bathe one patient after the other and have enough room to assisst with getting in and out of the tub (for catatonic and physically disables persons, etc). Also they were in large open nonprivate rooms because of the safety risk of leaving a mentally unstable person or persons alone.

or blood >.>

Splish Splash I was taking a bath.....

those red fingerprints on the tub look pretty weird!

Perhaps our concern with privacy for personal hygiene activities is a modern, fairly recent preoccupation? I remember how humiliating it was to have to use open showers and changing areas in the locker rooms in junior high and high school in the 70s. The junior high was built in the 1920s and the high school in the 1950s. Especially in junior high, we were required to shower after every gym class, which we had at least three times a week. Part of our grade (letter grades, not pass/fail) depended on taking the showers. The only way to get out of it "legally" was to have your period. Then you just had to take a "half-shower," essentially a sponge bath at the sink. You could only get by with this a couple of days a month, though, because the half-showers were noted, too. In recent years my teens have told me that not only do they rarely have gym class, they are not required to change clothes or shower. I also never liked the bathrooms in school (kids sneaking in to smoke, crude jokes, teasing, teachers popping in to try to catch smokers, locks that didn't work on stall doors, paper towel dispensers empty), but I am amazed at how many teenagers today tell me that they refuse to use the bathroom at school, even going all day without food, just to avoid the bathrooms.

You said red paint, when you said that the thing that can into my head was, red "paint", right, forceful bathing much?

That is sick, and we all need to put an end to mental hospitals.