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The Fernald School - Waltham, Ma.

I have to start by saying this place has been on my radar for well over a year. (Risk: HIGH) I finally planned out getting in and it was incredible. Ill give you a heads up if you decide to explore this place. Do NOT enter from Trapelo road. There is usually a cop parked at the main entrance. Also.... after finding out the hard way, the main building (admin building) is hot. It has emergency power that feeds surveillance cameras and an alarm system. I tripped an alarm and left that building. Cops did come and they parked INSIDE the complex! You will be safe and undetected in the buildings but be aware when walking around the complex.. ADVICE: walk around close to the structures and woods in case you gotta dip out of sight or dash into a building until they go by. Other than that, happy exploring 🍃 This was the most heat I’ve had to deal with but at the end of the day, the reward was greater than the risk (my own opinion) Built in 1888. The Walter E. Fernald State School, later the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center (aka Fernald Developmental Center or simply Fernald), was the Western hemisphere's oldest publicly funded institution serving people with developmental disabiliti Originally a Victorian sanatorium, it became a "poster child" for the American eugenics movement during the 1920s. It later was the scene of medical experiments in the 20th century. Investigations into this research led to new regulations regarding human research in children. founded by reformer Samuel Gridley Howe in 1848 with a $2,500 appropriation from the Massachusetts State Legislature. The school eventually comprised 72 buildings total, located on 196 acres. At its peak, some 2,500 people were confined there, most of them "feeble-minded" boys. Under its third superintendent, Walter E. Fernald (1859–1924), an advocate of eugenics, the school was viewed as a model educational facility in the field of mental retardation. It was renamed in his honor in 1925, following his death the previous year. The institution was involved in several different procedures that used the residents as test subjects some of which include sterilization and radiation experimentation. The institution did serve a large population of mentally retarded children, but The Boston Globe estimates that upwards of half of the inmates tested with IQs in the normal range. In the 20th century, living conditions were spartan or worse; approximately 36 children slept in each dormitory room. There were also reports of physical and sexual abuse. Nuclear medicine research in children Edit The Fernald School was the site of the 1946–53 joint experiments by Harvard University and MIT that exposed young male children to tracer doses of radioactive isotopes. Documents obtained in 1994 by the United States Department of Energy revealed the following details: The experiment was conducted in part by a research fellow sponsored by the Quaker Oats Company. MIT Professor of Nutrition Robert S. Harris led the experiment, which studied the absorption of calcium and iron. The boys were encouraged to join a "Science Club", which offered larger portions of food, parties, and trips to Boston Red Sox baseball games. The 57 club members ate iron-enriched cereals and calcium-enriched milk for breakfast. In order to track absorption, several radioactive calcium tracers were given orally or intravenously. Radiation levels in stool and blood samples would serve as dependent variables. In another study, 17 subjects received iron supplement shots containing radioisotopes of iron.[9] Neither the children nor their parents EVER gave adequate consent for participation in a scientific study.