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This photo looks like it is the surgical room or a morgue of a penitentiary or an insane asylum. Just think of the disease and the suffering that was in that room. It makes me think of Western Penitentiary outside of Louisville where they housed thousands of people who carried the disease, Tuberculosis. That place just overwhelms you with the smell of death with the slightly turned surgical table which to me symbolizes how crazy these people are in these asylums. Then you have the brownish mold on the walls which just screams to you how unsanitary and infected this building is. You can look at the room in the perspective that it is like the patients who stayed there. They are slowly withering away and deteriorating. There no exactly sane. Some may not be able to accept the fact that they are going to die so there minds and possibly there spirit are lingering in that place like the doctor's coat hanging on the wall.

What also stands out about this place is that the floors are still plywood, like they just threw this room together so they could house all the bodies. They weren't expecting the overflow of bodies so they had to come up with a solution. This shows you how much of an effort was put in to find a cure for this disease. The tile that spans the bottom half of the wall is a white color with a reddish tint to it. As if that tint is all of the blood from previous patients. Its just a horrible sight because if you have heard about the TB epidemic you would have heard of the overcrowding in the asylums across the country. It was just a gruesome sight.