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"One of the many growing problems at the state mental institutions is adequate housing for under-18 children and over-65 men and women." Many children are mixed with "chronically ill adult patients" and the 800 patients over the age of 65 "are housed…

Digital photograph of Dix Drive house number 5, southern elevation (facing Dix Drive).

Color map of State Hospital buildings, color coded according to unknown system. Dates prior to construction of Chapel and Library/Auditorium.

To avoid a financial deficit, Dr. Hall announced "We're going to cut down on food, and hire no more attendants. We will be operating with far fewer attendants than we should have."

Hand drawn color map of State Hospital buildings, perhaps an early draft of a Sanborn map.

One of the photographs shown in this newspaper article are of the gravy train which serves 4,000 daily prepared meals across the campus and is electrically heated.

B&W photograph of Elmwood Ave entrance to South Carolina State Hospital. Gated entrance in foreground, Mills building at right, residences at left. Cropped from original.

Inez Fripp gives a brief history of the hospital and updates on the latest four buildings, including the Food Service building."The earliest attempt to provide a special place for the mentally ill in South Carolina was made by the Fellowship Society…

Sepia panoramic photograph of entrance to Bull Street campus from Elmwood Avenue; Robert Mills building is on the right, large cottages are on the left. Cropped from original.

This article describes the overcrwded population at the South Carolina State hospital and the yearly increase of amitted patients. "A new mental health law passed on March7, 1952 makes it easier for a patient to be admitted, particularly in relation…