An excerpt from the Annual Report for the year 1909-Superintendent's Report summarizing previous annual reports in order to convey a need for a second building for African American patients
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.
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.