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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: franksolich on June 30, 2009, 07:11:37 AM
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I just got done reading a diary kept by a private in the U.S. Army when he was stationed in upstate New York, 1918-1919. He was assigned to guard inmates at a hospital for the insane operated by the army.
In it, he mentions a peculiar quality of the floors, that they were slippery.
And that they were slippery on purpose.
Guards wore special boots that made the floors non-slippery.
Inmates wore slippers that made them slide and skid if treading too fast.
An interesting idea, and I'm wondering if such is still done today. Not being intimately--or even distantly--acquainted with nuthouses, I myself wouldn't know.
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No, they cannot be slippery. Modern building codes will not allow it. A lot of hospitals have started putting carpet in their patient wing corridors....makes 'em quieter.
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No, they cannot be slippery. Modern building codes will not allow it. A lot of hospitals have started putting carpet in their patient wing corridors....makes 'em quieter.
With as much crap as I put up with as a result of OSHA and their interminable regulations and standards, I agree with lug.
When and if a patient or a health worker slips and falls and incurs an injury, that's the start of a lot of headaches to come -- with or without slippery floors.
International Fire Codes, National Fire Protection Association standards, state, and local codes, it goes on and on and on and on....