Food Service
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Title
Food Service
Description
The Food Service Building was built in 1954 to meet the demands of feeding an ever increasing population. The new Food Service Building could produce 10,000 meals a day and contained new technology from the time.
Creator
Hannah Whitlark
Rights
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Coverage
1954-2000
Collection Items
1954 Annual Reports, Personnel Division
The Personnel Division section in the 1954 Annual Records lists the following reasons for the employment drop between 1950-1951: "ren-entry of the U.S. into war, the re-activation of Fort Jackson and the contruction of an atomic energy material plant…
1954 Annual Reports, South Carolina Mental Health Commission. Report of S.C. Mental Health Commission
This page describes the recommendation of the State to rewrite their mental health laws and focus on the "woeful conditions existing in the State, Hospital, the most over crowded mental hospital in the United States…"
1954 Annual Reports, South Carolina Mental Health Commission. Report of S.C. Mental Health Commission
"The years 1951-1954 have been as a result the greatest period of sustained construction in the more than 125 years of the hospitals existance." "To replace the kitchen at the Columbia Division, from which the hospital was attempting to feed more…
1956 Annual Reports, South Carolina State Hospital. Report of S.C. Mental Health Commission
On September 4, 1954 the new Food Service building was completed and contained a Cafeteria, Kitchen, and Bakery. Construction and Equipment cost was $1,281,901.52. This new building caters to feeding both Columbia and State Park divisions.
1956 Annual Reports, South Carolina State Hospital.Report of S.C. Mental Health Commission
"Emphasis now must be placed on giving the newly admitted patients maximum psychiatric and medical treatment in order to give him the maximum chance of returning home."The longer a patient stays in treatment the more expensive it is for the State. So…
1956 Annual Reports, South Carolina State Hospital. New Buildings, Food Service Center
During its time of opening in 1954, the Food Service building was one of the finest Souteast, it contained some of the newest methods of storage and refrigeration.
1956 Annual Reports, South Carolina State Hospital. Financial Statement, Year Ending June 30,1955, Maintenance
In 1956, $762,986.77 was spent on food equipment and $123, 328.43 was spent on construction and improvements to the food service building.
1956 Annual Reports, South Carolina State Hospital. National Food Service Award
"On May 7, 1956 at the presentation luncheon in the Sheraton Hotel, Chicago, Leland E. Crenshaw, director of food service, accepted for the hospital the 1956 Food Service Award national honor plaque…for outstanding ahievement in food service…
1956 Annual Reports, South Carolina State Hospital. Maintenance Expenditure
The State Hospital from 1955-1956 spent $2.25 per day per patient. And .381 of that was for food purchases per patient per day.
Mental Health progress and promise 1952-1972 South Carolina State Hospital Est 1821
In this pamphlet, there is an image of a "gravy train" and the Hospital had two of these in order to deliver hot meal containers to various dining halls on the Bull Street Campus. It states that "Patients and hospital employees get identical fare."