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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."

View of the metal structure attached to the back of the Mattress Factory. There seems to be a well of some sort next to it.

A pamphlet from the third annual Research Symposium on January 26, 1971. It contains the schedule of events and a brief history of the Ensor Research Foundation.

A photo story showing the steeple being lifted onto the top of the chapel.

"Dr. Beckman's position of State director was created by a new mental health act passed by the 1952 South Carolina General Assembly." Dr. Beckman "will have direct supervision over the mental health clinics of South Carolina, and he will be…

Continued from the article of Governor Byrnes talk to the General Assembly, Byrnes states "the State hospital is Problem Number 1 for this legislation session." Byrnes presents the facts about patient to staff ratios( one doctor for every 445…

This article details the "complete text of the address to the General Assembly" by Governor James F. Byrnes on January 8, 1952."There was a time when men and women regarded the care of dependent and aged parents not as a duty but as a privilege. The…

Governor Byrnes and around one hundred people from the General Assembly toured the state mental hospital, their "problem number 1." On the tour Governor Byrnes noted overcrowded living conditions, patients without clothing, a lack of elevators, the…

"The committee recommended a $3,000,000 appropriation to replace the condemned Taylor Building, housing 270 'highly exciteable' patients at the State Hospital, and to provide a central kitchen at the institution."

"Governor Byrnes yesterday signed into law the act generally termed the "mental health bill" which revised and modernized laws relating to the hospitalization, detention, guardianship, care and treatment of the mentally ill and the mentally…