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Reports the installation of overhead sprinklers at the Laundry as well as an additional room added to the Bakery for storing flour. Details the concern of overcrowding, what it is and its risks, and the refusal of patients and admission restraints.

Photograph of the white-washed brick extension of the Bakery where flour and bread were stored. An awning has been placed over the door to the storage room's entrance.

Letter to Mr. Ulmer, State Board of Health, stating that the Laundry houses too many pieces of equipment that need to be maintained. Some larger pieces cannot be expected to run much longer, and parts cannot be acquired. Total volume of laundry has…

Newpaper article describing the general life of the patients on the Bull Street campus. The author deems those who work in the Laundry and the Bakery as "the lucky ones."

Reports that a storeroom was built in the rear of the Bakery at State Park for the storage of flour.

Details that a new Laundry and Bakery are needed, complete with equipment. They are both built.

Details the completion of the new Bakery, its dimensions, and some of its new machinery. Receiving and distributing rooms were added to the Northern and Southern ends of the Laundry as well.

Details the improvements needed in the present facilities on the Bull Street campus as well as the campus's current situation.

"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…

The plan shows a map of the Bull Street site in 1909, drawn by an associate of Shand & Lafaye Architects.