Records bids received for building the Tuberculosis ward at the State Hospital and the decision to accept the lowest bid, proposed by Mechanics Contracting Co., of $22,981.
The Treasurer read a letter from architects Lafaye & Lafaye stating that with a few exceptions the T.B. Pavilion was ready for acceptance and that, to guarantee the completion of the said building, $531.00 of the contract price was being retained.
Describes the enlargement of one ward building at the Columbia campus to house both male and female tuberculosis patients, making 100 beds available. By 1951, LaBorde no longer housed TB patients.
Reports that there was an urgent need at the institution in Columbia to build a Tuberculosis Ward Building with forty beds for white male patients that were then housed in the Parker Annex.
Addressed to 'His Excellency, John G. Richards, Governor of South Carolina' the Board of Regents reported that on May 29th, a contract was awarded to erect a building of 40 bed capacity to be used for white men suffering with tuberculosis; it was…