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Central Islip Psychiatric Center VR
The virtual tours provide a 360 degree view of areas of Kings Park. You control what you will see, from panning to zooming. For it to work you must have the quicktime plug-in. If you don't already have it go here. The files may take a while to load especially on slower connections. You may want to right click the link and save the file.
Inside a sunburst building tubercular ward. At the time Sunburst was used to house TB patients the best treatment was thought to be fresh air. The patients would spend countless hours in caged in porches. Each ward consisted of two bedrooms and no dayroom, because the patients would use the porches instead.

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Now see inside a more modern ward in the Concoran buildings. The patients here would spend there time in either the dayroom or the bedroom dorm. The ward would typically have about 40 people living in it.

Bedroom       Dayroom

Another part of patient life at CI was recreation and Robbins hall served as a theater, bowling alley and commissary. I the theater the patients would put on performances for other patients and staff.
Theater in Robbins Hall