The Columbia Record article gives an overview of how the elderly crowd the SC Mental Hospital and the new 60 treatment plan to decrease patient stay. The hospital can turn away senile people but it can not turn away senile people who's families can…
This cut out from a newspaper article shows a photograph of the new Food Service Kitchen with the caption "A bright spot in dark picture; gleaming new central kitchen."
In caring for the mentally ill in SC, Dr. Hall states, "doing everything possible to keep a prospective patient out of the (state mental) hospital." He goes on to explain that community programs for the mentally ill and a supportive family home life…
"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…