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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."

One of the photographs shown in this newspaper article are of the gravy train which serves 4,000 daily prepared meals across the campus and is electrically heated.

Inez Fripp gives a brief history of the hospital and updates on the latest four buildings, including the Food Service building."The earliest attempt to provide a special place for the mentally ill in South Carolina was made by the Fellowship Society…

This article describes the overcrwded population at the South Carolina State hospital and the yearly increase of amitted patients. "A new mental health law passed on March7, 1952 makes it easier for a patient to be admitted, particularly in relation…

"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…

"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…

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…

This document outlines the tour that is to be given to Governor Byrnes the following day. "Then to Dining Room and Kitchen. (Kitchen originially designed to feed 1800 patients. Now has to feed 3,000). INADEQUATE EQUIPMENT, Ask Mr. Hiers to point out…

"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."

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…