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…
"South Carolina's State hospital's most pressing needs are two: 1. Additional personnel. Employes of the medical department of the hospital are now working 60 to 72 hours a week. And their number, for this obvious reason, is insufficient-one doctor…
"Second to be established, but third to ready for patients. South Carolina State Hospital Columbia, SC. Established Dec. 21, 1821 Mills Building completed and ready for patients Dec. 18, 1827. First patient-white woman from Barnwell county admitted…
"A dining room scuffle between white and Negro Patients at the South Carolina Mental Hospital had 'racial overtones,' the institution's superintendent said Thursday." This fight occurred with two African American male patients and several hundred…
"In Observance of National Mental Health Week," the SCDMH exhibited a two day program to inform the public about mental health by using films and speakers to explain what causes mental disturbances in children and to "consider with us the Mental…
For 1953, it was estimated that a million adults and childern with mental disorders would need placement in mental hospitals. Hospitals were already overcrowded and this article seeks to answer questions pertaining to the increase of mental disorders…
Building number 39 is the warehouse next to the Food Service Building. It contains 29,952 Total Building footage with a gross area of 30,772. It has one floor.