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Selection from Annual Report detailing work done on Babcock Building so patients could live there again

The Cooper Building has received a major security upgrade, and all Forensic Services are now consolidated in Cooper.

Both forensic psychiatrists left for other jobs, but the hospital has replaced them and is looking for a third. To cut down on admissions, the hospital is starting a pre-screening program.

Forensic evaluations now take fifteen days instead of thirty. Forensic patients must be evaluated and then released or put into regular treatment wards. They cannot stay in maximum security wards indefinitely. The changes are in compliance with a…

Cover has a hand written note stating, "Refer to page 14- Act to authorize admission of Persons of Color into the Lunatic Asylum-Dec. 19, 1948."

An excerpt from the Annual Report for the year 1910-Report of the Regents stating the need for a second building for African Americans.

The Board of Regents reports an influx of forensic admissions. A change in state law allows judges to send defendants to the hospital for thirty days' observation and competency evaluation. The hospital lacks separate facilities for these patients.…

The Board of Regents reiterates Babcock's concern about admitting patients accused of crimes on an indefinite basis. The Board also calls for moving all high risk patients to separate wards.

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

An excerpt from the Annual Report of the South Carolina State Hospital for the year 1927 - the Board of Regents to Governor Richards stating that "with the appropriation for permanent improvements made by the General Assembly of last year" two…