Map of State Mental Hospital, LaBorde is labeled as "W.M.T.B. 1929" - Perhaps stands for White Male Tuberculosis. Note that the building is still not called LaBorde in 1941.
Includes account of completed construction of "The Williams Building," in June 1932, designed to care for fifty "old and infirm white women." Physical description of the building and contract and construction dates (1931-32) all suggest that this…
Board Regents minutes from May 29, 1929: Records bids received for building the Tuberculosis ward at the State Hospital in Columbia, and the decision to accept the lowest bid, proposed by Mechanics Contracting Co., of $22,981.