A Visit To The Old Lima Ohio Tuberculosis Hospital


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A Visit To The Old Lima Ohio Tuberculosis Hospital

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Post# 91890 11/1/2005 at 23:02 (6,749 days old) by pumper (SE Wisconsin)
Checkrate/Likes I was perusing this website checking out old abandoned buildings around the country and found a couple of interesting pics in the Lima TB hospital section. Click on Gallery 1 for a few interesting shots. Anyone care to drive there to salvage them? CLICK HERE TO GO TO pumper's LINK

Post# 91901 , Reply# 1 11/2/2005 at 06:15 (6,749 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)
Checkrate/Likes Of the laundry machines, the "Rustinghouse" slant-front and the extractor look like the might be in restorable shape----lots of surface rust on everything. Interesting pix! Thanks!

Post# 91904 , Reply# 2 11/2/2005 at 07:31 (6,749 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida)
Checkrate/Likes Go Steve (Gyrafoam). You know how to enter these places of spook and treasures! Steve

Post# 91905 , Reply# 3 11/2/2005 at 07:34 (6,749 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)
Checkrate/Likes I am almost sure that the stoves were electric, the big ones in the kitchen and the smaller one on its side in another room. This place was probably located way away from any population center so there was probably no natural gas. The dryers are steam heated, very typical in hospitals with their large boilers, probably clean-burning anthracite coal, maybe later oil fired, but polution of the air could not be tolerated at a TB facility so maybe it was always oil. That big steam jacket kettle is similar in looks to the one in the hospital kitchen where I worked. I remember cleaning it. There was a cold water faucet over it that you opened to put a small amount of water in it. Detergent was added then you BRIEFLY opened the steam valve. The whole pan was instantly hot so you carefully reached in with gloved hands and washed the thing. When it was clean, the crank on the side was turned to tip the kettle over to drain it, then it was set back upright and rinsed in similar fashion. I developed a great respect for steam under pressure at that hospital. There is an old hospital near me that I happened on back in the early 80s. I did not know what it was at first, but when I described it to an older neighbor, they told me it was the Glendale TB Sanatorium. When I took my parents past it, my mother remarked at how similar it was to the one in Minnesota where her friend worked as a librarian. The buildings had big pavilions on the roof of each building where patients were put to get clean air and sunshine. Across the road from it was the very nice home for the administrator and smaller places for staff, I guess, since it was close to nothing 70 or more years ago. In the second album there is a picture of a green tiled room with two smashed toilets. I think it would be a good picture to flash on the screen while that nice lady is saying that Philips Milk of Magnesia is not harsh like stimulant laxitives. It's such a shame for such a well-built place to sit vacant and exposed to the elements. It's also a shame that it would probably cost more to rehab it for use than it would cost to build something new.

Post# 91926 , Reply# 4 11/2/2005 at 10:16 (6,748 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN)
Checkrate/Likes *Spooky* What a spooky looking hospital. Well I already have a phobia for hospitals/doctors/medical equipment, but have a fascination in the vintage stuff. I worked a few days in Children's Hospital in Boston. I was moving pc's from old wings to the new. It was really cool seeing 60s-70s colors as well as vintage icu equipment. But knowing what those machines did back then gave me the creeps. I imagined crying/sick kids hooked up to those IVs/heart monitors/oxygen tanks. Yikes. I didn't get to see the laundry but I'm sure it's just like any hospital. Big front loaders that heat the water and huge dryers.

Post# 91927 , Reply# 5 11/2/2005 at 10:22 (6,748 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN)
Checkrate/Likes Check out the Dixmount Insane Asylum. Even scarier than the TV hospital. It's slated for demolition and a Wal Mart put in its place. Now THAT's insane! CLICK HERE TO GO TO jasonl's LINK

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