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Slab Tub

Slab Tub

Almost every floor had a hydrotherapy station, with two slab tubs on either side.
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Why the slab tub?
Tony C.
Wed 09-19-2007
Isn't that for washing cadavers?
C-Note
Wed 09-19-2007
Those old porcelain slab tubs would be so nice to have in a garden.
Janice
Wed 09-19-2007
It does look like an autopsy table, but these shallow tubs were used to give patients sponge baths and things of that nature.
Motts
Wed 09-19-2007
Mr. Motts is right.
Debbie
Wed 09-19-2007
It is funny how I had forgotten that people would think a slab tub was exclusively used as a morgue table until you showed one of these in an earlier gallery several years back and received so many comments. It helps remind those of us in the field how odd our "normal" world is to outsiders.
Lynne
Wed 09-19-2007
I still say it would make a great fish cleaning table.
J-131274
Thu 09-20-2007
Wow, there's something so powerful about this shot--the yellow walls, the slab tub and then the sunlight fighting to get through the boarded up window...
Long Island Irish
Thu 09-20-2007
what is that thing on the wall?
Joe
Tue 09-25-2007
Oh come on, I cant believe nobody jumped on that! God! It's obviously the "soup dispenser"...LOL couldn't resist!
Kristiara
Mon 10-01-2007
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the word hydrotherapy make me squirm.
Apple.
Tue 10-02-2007
Thats actually a sink that has a flusher on it. I have seen it in hospitals. I am not too sure what the name is though.
Ter
Thu 10-04-2007
the sink on the wall is for cleaning bed pans. you put the bed pan in it & flushed - the water was extremely hot to sterilize it & the bed pan was clean for the next use.
old timer
Mon 10-15-2007
The sink with the flusher handle is called a 'hopper'.. Ahh, all the terms you get use to when you step into the medical field!
Great pics as always Motts!
Vici
Tue 10-16-2007
This room looks relatively more modern then the others.
reddll
Thu 10-18-2007
i been working in hospitals and nursing homes for over 20 years, never heard of the term "hopper" for the the bedpan sanitizer.
gingerbell
Sat 11-10-2007
what's that machine on the left??
monkey
Sun 09-07-2008
your right about that bed pan cleaner!! they have them in older nursing homes!
monkey
Sun 09-07-2008
the slab tub looks new
swamp thing
Mon 03-23-2009
A hopper and a bedpan sanitizer are two different things! A hopper is a big sink with flushing capabilities--I've never seen a fold up version before...
gr8rn2b
Sun 04-26-2009
i seen some of these slab tubs boken and then seen ghost when my friends took pictuers. and one had and sperit of a baby ghost u can c the body and all
jarred
Wed 02-24-2010
i seen them broken in one of the buildings
jarred H
Wed 02-24-2010

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