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

"Emphasis now must be placed on giving the newly admitted patients maximum psychiatric and medical treatment in order to give him the maximum chance of returning home."The longer a patient stays in treatment the more expensive it is for the State. So…

On September 4, 1954 the new Food Service building was completed and contained a Cafeteria, Kitchen, and Bakery. Construction and Equipment cost was $1,281,901.52. This new building caters to feeding both Columbia and State Park divisions.

During its time of opening in 1954, the Food Service building was one of the finest Souteast, it contained some of the newest methods of storage and refrigeration.

"On May 7, 1956 at the presentation luncheon in the Sheraton Hotel, Chicago, Leland E. Crenshaw, director of food service, accepted for the hospital the 1956 Food Service Award national honor plaque…for outstanding ahievement in food service…

The State Hospital from 1955-1956 spent $2.25 per day per patient. And .381 of that was for food purchases per patient per day.

In 1956, $762,986.77 was spent on food equipment and $123, 328.43 was spent on construction and improvements to the food service building.

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.

"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…

This page describes the recommendation of the State to rewrite their mental health laws and focus on the "woeful conditions existing in the State, Hospital, the most over crowded mental hospital in the United States…"