Well all remember the hospital with Jack Nicholson in the movie “One Flew Over the 
Cuckoo’s Nest”, that is if you are old enough, or there are several areas on the web where you can also probably find the movie. The hospital soon will no longer be in use as patients are being moved to into Oregon's new 620-bed mental institution this month. This is an old hospital going back to 1914 and the remains are said to be from that era up to the 1970s.
The hospital is placing information on the website in hopes that everyone will be identified and all patient ashes can be delivered to their families. So far there are only 4 canisters of cremated ashes that remain unidentified Actually the discover was made back in 2004 and now the information and news of the find is now just getting out. There’s plenty on the web about this hospital and actual abuses did take place and the reasoning behind the canisters being locked away is due to the fact that many years back were embarrassed by family members who were in mental hospitals and thus sadly they were forgotten. BD
A mental hospital in the US state of Oregon is trying to identify the cremated remains of 3,500 patients that were hidden in a storage room
for decades.
They were discovered in 2004 in what was called "the room for lost souls".
The hospital has published the names and birthdates of patients who died between 1917 and the 1970s online in an attempt to locate family members.
All but four canisters of the remains have been identified.
The hospital also came under fire in 2008 after authorities discovered mice, toxic paint, asbestos, outbreaks of scabies and pneumonia, and 400 patient-against-patient assaults in one year.
BBC News - 'Cuckoo's Nest' mental hospital finds unknown remains
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