The Seattle Times, 1/15/43

Monday, March 4, 2013

Exposing Western Continued: Seattle P-I, 2/18/49


The photos show how the patients' beds "are jammed in, one almost touching the other," and how "drastic  overcrowding forces use of open areaways for sleeping quarters."



The captions detail how canvas covers open apertures through which wind and rain blow in, and describes how the hospital is forced to use both gyms and extremely vulnerable "fire traps" of buildings to house the 510 extra patients.