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"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…"

The Personnel Division section in the 1954 Annual Records lists the following reasons for the employment drop between 1950-1951: "ren-entry of the U.S. into war, the re-activation of Fort Jackson and the contruction of an atomic energy material plant…