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More Baths

So many of the rooms were stripped bare, except for all the various kinds of bathtubs.
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Nice Shot! You can still see the curtain racks on the ceiling, at least the patient was provided some kind of privacy, not so, in other hospitals.
LucieLou
Thu 04-22-2010
eeww again :)
A D Nilsen
Thu 04-22-2010
This tub doesn't have the spikes on the side like the pink one did. Great shot.
TootUncommon
Thu 04-22-2010
Nice shot, captured the essence of the room
Vipersrule
Fri 04-23-2010
seems cold....not a room I'd want to strip naked in :(
serenityjane
Fri 04-23-2010
love it in the b&w
Joe
Sat 04-24-2010
any guess on why they would put the tub up so high in the first place.....why not just leave it level on the floor... wouldnt it be hard to put them in there if their in a wheel chair....sorry just mkes no sence to me ...but nice shot Motts your always great with all your work....Also it looks like there are drain holes in a few places on the floor for showers.that would be weird to have a shower then a tub then a shower agian.unless with the tub being so high the workers dropped them in on accicdent causing some big splashes...lol.
megan
Mon 04-26-2010
I like the traction strips on the floor, so you can really....
Binky
Tue 04-27-2010
i guess now in pychiatric hospitals theyd have showers more so than baths
bonnie
Wed 04-28-2010
Love it in black & white, very stark!
Dawn Michelle
Wed 04-28-2010
I'm assuming that the reason the tub is high is for patients on stretchers. It may have been easier for them to be placed in the tub at that level. Only a quess.
Fla. Gator
Fri 04-30-2010
Me thinks the bath tubs at this height was probably for the nice attendant not having to bend down to assist? Now institutional bathtubs have doors and some even cradle like a swing to get ya in and out
mikeyintheoc
Fri 05-07-2010
"Rubber duckie, you're the one, you make bathtime lots of fun...." oh sorry, didn't realize you all were in here too.
BustedTrespasser
Tue 07-06-2010
The tubs were elevated in the days when we didn't use hydrolic lifts. It help save our backs when lifting. lifting would have been much harder closer to the floor.
lorjoy
Fri 08-13-2010
If you don't know - this place was operating and built primarily in the 70's, before the days of arjo lifts. Staff did all the lifting of both adults and children into the tubs. It was easier for staff to lift into a higher tub and safer for the people they were lifting as they didn't have to put them down in a low tub.
lorjoy
Sat 08-14-2010

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