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Old Morgue

Old Morgue

The is the morgue in the original medical building, made of wood (or at least paneled). It is basically a box with a large air conditioner in the back. There were no tables or windows in the room.
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A throwback to my profession's humbler beginnings...
Unpleasant as it may be to think of, only having an air conditioner back there, it's a gorgeous photograph. The light accentuates the natural hues of the wood.
Talon Godchild
Mon 05-30-2005
reminds me of a sauna
S3an
Wed 11-16-2005
JUMP ON IN S3AN ,, KNOCK YOURSELF OUT!!
JOE
Sun 12-25-2005
NICE PLACE TOO SLEEP
R/T
Thu 01-12-2006
How can a large boned dead person fit in
that morgue?Old or New morgue?
Skeety
Sun 01-15-2006
Not all Morgues are step up with these types of units anymore.
Some of them have large walk-in coolers that the staff use to push the gurney's into and line them up for easier retrival.

Some have these body slide shelves and a walk in cooler. The body slide being for person's who require identification, work that is on going in the autopsy... etc.

Even in the science of death they have had to make adustments for the unhealthly lifestyles and genetic anomolyes of the living.
Lyric
Sun 01-15-2006
Addendum to my previous post above.

What a lot of us need to realize as well, is that historically (previous to 1960)
Lifetstyles did not allow for sedentary life styles.
We didn't have to consider obesity the same way we do now, because life back then did not allow for it the same way it does now.
It affected 1-5% of the population where now we are looking at close to 50%.

This is not to say that it didn't happen, but it was much less common. If you were sedentary and obese it usually stemmed from illness, rather than a lifestyle choice.
Lyric
Sun 01-15-2006
In 100 years when someone comes to a website such as this it will prolly be called "Obesity" instead of "Opacity."
Lynne
Sun 01-15-2006
Are you implying that 100 years ago, there was a serious problem with 50% of the population being opaque?!
xyz
Mon 01-16-2006
XYZ - Quite the contrary. Lyric was pointing out that currently there is an obesity problem with the United States. A hundred years ago, the average lifestyle didn't allow for the same sedentary existence the populace currently has, so therefore, the morgue designers didn't have to factor in that there would be a steady clientele of morbidly obese corpses.
Serrena
Mon 01-16-2006
If I thought that just 50% of the population was opaque, however, that WOULD cause me a little concern . . . =8-o

http://dict.die.net/opaque/
Lynne
Mon 01-16-2006
I certainly hope that 100% of the population is opaque. A transparent or translucent fringe would be rather disturbing ... especially when standing beside a soap dispenser.
Serrena
Mon 01-16-2006
is that a beer can sitting on the way top right door?
nitedivine
Tue 02-07-2006
I think it was a type of aerosol cleaner.
Motts
Tue 02-07-2006
Looks like Old Milwaukee aerosol cleaner...
Ouroboris
Sat 04-29-2006
no I think that is Shlitz aerosol cleaner
Joe
Fri 05-05-2006
The use of freezers/coolers is to aid in slowing down the process of decomposition, but don't be fooled into thinking that the bodies still won't smell. I have never been inside a cooler or been near a freezer that isn't funky and that's considering I have olfactory problems, so I can't pick up smell as acutely as most people. I can only imagine the stench with this kind of freezer.
InSearch
Sat 07-01-2006
very interesting . hmmm
markymark
Sat 08-26-2006
the sunlight makes the wood look great.
nice shot!!
jason
Wed 10-04-2006
omg the black shadow across the wood looks like an entity reaching out !!!!
julie
Thu 10-25-2007
Beautiful shot.

How did they get the bodies high up on the third tier?
Krista
Sat 12-15-2007
Sometimes they are used to store organs, limbs, and tissue samples when all the trays are not needed. They also have gurneys with a "jack" that is used to raise the body to the proper height for loading and unloading.
Motts
Sat 12-15-2007
When I worked at the commercial refrigeration company we made mortuary, among many other things.One of the supervisors told me that when they would put the last two screws in the ceiling of the slab compartment they would do so lying in the compartment on thier back.
Guitorman
Mon 04-07-2008
Pretty scary being in a morgue with No windows in it! Kind of like it was inclosed.
john
Fri 08-22-2008
No ghost no scream
Ghostud
Wed 08-27-2008
well...........that is really............nasty! Like they put dead bodies in that
kylie
Wed 04-01-2009
Would the last body in please turn out the light
Billy O
Sun 10-18-2009
very interesting i would loike to be THERE DAAA!!!
Lili ROQUe
Thu 11-19-2009
who took the missing doors?
eldokid@aol.com
Fri 03-12-2010
What a great fing, this should be in a museum, I've never in my life seen or even heard of wooden cabnits for the bodies; and an airconditioner?!
VanessaF.
Thu 03-31-2011

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