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State hospitals for the Mentally Ill In the United States
"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…
The Columbia Record. Governor Byrnes Pleads for State Hospita
"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…
The State. Text of Governor Byrnes' Talk to General Assebly
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…
The State. Text of Governor Byrnes' Talk to General Assembly
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…
The State. Legislative Committee Urges Revision of Mental Health Laws, Creation of SC Commission, $3,200,000 in Buildings
"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."
Route To Be Taken For Visiting Governor and Members of the Legislative. White Male Service
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 State. State Legislators Thread Way Through State Hospital
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 State. Byrnes Sign Mental Health Act; SC Laws Are Modernized
"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…
The State.Beckman Named Mental Health Director of SC; Hall Succeeds Him as Head of State Hospital
"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…
17,786 New Patients Admitted to Crowded State Hospital in Decade
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…