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Room with Fireplace

Room with Fireplace

These were real fireplaces that led up to chimneys on top... a hint at the actual age of this building. I have never heard of fireplaces being built in mental wards after 1920.
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also a hint to the kind of horrors people who lived there had to endure
Lola
Thu 10-20-2005
Not so safe for suicidal patients!
Viveka
Sat 10-22-2005
The wards contained apartments for the Orderly. There was one doctor's aparment on each floor. They had fireplaces, but not for heat. All the buildings were heated by steam that was generated in the power station and run underground through 7 miles of tunnels .

Yes, the orderlys and doctors lived with the patients.
Kevin
Tue 11-29-2005
??? WTF??? Haven't you ever seen a multi-floor fireplace? It's not like you could jump in one to fall down and die... The only thing you could possibly do to hurt yourself is to get in when it's running, and I doubt that the staff would have let you do that. They had fireplaces to help make the patients feel normal, how is that cruel? I don't understand...
Sketch
Fri 12-23-2005
Omg Paitents feelign normal, oh no tha'ts cruelty. I should report this place to the po-lice. Paitents are supposed to feel abnormal cramped in little rooms all day. Left to make no friends and not have a meaning in life. Not like they're ever getting out. So, this fireplace is a cruel horror. CRUEL CRUEL. OMFG IS IT BLOOOOD ON IT TOOO. BLOOOOOOD.
Anyways Jo isn't in a good mood.
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Jo
Fri 12-23-2005
Yeah, that's what I was going for, but I think you wrote it better. I don't see the reason why they said this was cruel. Seems to me like they went out of their way to do little things like this to help the patients feel normal...
Sketch
Fri 12-23-2005
I wrote it in the words of them. They say it's cruel because they don't think of asylums as anything BUT cruelty. They think all the paitents in here are normal people abducted off the streets and beat to death. "Omfg I bet they shoved people in this fireplace while it was burning as a form of punishment"
Jo
Fri 12-23-2005
This must have been a beautiful room at one time.
Nancy
Thu 06-08-2006
It was. The ceilings were once tin. The fireplaces were operational. The room you see was originally a dormatory. The wall on the left was added very much later to divide the dormatory into a big dayroom and two smaller dormatories. The double hung windows allowed great ventilation.
KPSHMRU
Mon 09-10-2007

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