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LaBorde completely rebuilt with the installation of new floors, plumbing, lighting, air-conditioning, heating, windows. Space which was originally used for wards was divided into private rooms. LaBorde's exterior was painted. The entire project…

Governor James F. Byrnes visited LaBorde during his tour of the S.C. State Hospital on Tuesday, January 8, 1952.

LaBorde, formerly for women patients, had been established for regressed, infirmary-type men.

Forty patients from the overcrowded Parker Building were transferred to LaBorde, whose women's ward was vacated.

Superintendent Babcock repeats what he wrote in the 1895 annual report that the "rapidity in the course of tuberculosis in the colored race as compared with the white also calls for comment." He includes a report from the 1907 annual report: "To…

Babcock made recommendations to the General Assembly to separate tuberculosis patients from the non-tuberculosis after studying Watson's "Handbook of South Carolina." v

Superintendent Babcock wrote that since his annual report of 1894, he had said that tuberculosis is "the chief cause of mortality among our patients." Reports that the hospital is not adequately addressing the problem, and that back in 1894 he…

Records that the Wilson building was enlarged in 1952 to accommodate tubercular men and women patients, confirming that LaBorde no longer housed white male tuberculosis patients by 1952.

Lists LaBorde's construction year as 1929.

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.