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The report describes LaBorde's original use and current use (for elderly, semi-invalid patients). Includes square feet, number of rooms, capacity. Lists problems (crowding, no drains). Suggest building wing additions to alleviate crowding and…

LaBorde, formerly for women patients, had been established for regressed, infirmary-type men.

Forty patients from the overcrowded Parker Building were transferred to LaBorde, whose women's ward was vacated.

Superintendent Babcock repeats what he wrote in the 1895 annual report that the "rapidity in the course of tuberculosis in the colored race as compared with the white also calls for comment." He includes a report from the 1907 annual report: "To…

Babcock made recommendations to the General Assembly to separate tuberculosis patients from the non-tuberculosis after studying Watson's "Handbook of South Carolina." v

Superintendent Babcock wrote that since his annual report of 1894, he had said that tuberculosis is "the chief cause of mortality among our patients." Reports that the hospital is not adequately addressing the problem, and that back in 1894 he…

Records that the Wilson building was enlarged in 1952 to accommodate tubercular men and women patients, confirming that LaBorde no longer housed white male tuberculosis patients by 1952.

Addressed to the Board of Regents, reports that "In accordance with instructions from the Board, plans and specifications were made for a Tuberculosis Ward Building." Describes the building as one-story brick building covered with a tin roof,…

Addressed to 'His Excellency, John G. Richards, Governor of South Carolina' the Board of Regents reported that on May 29th, a contract was awarded to erect a building of 40 bed capacity to be used for white men suffering with tuberculosis; it was…

Bed Capacity Report from an Employee Orientation Manual; LaBorde is listed as Pre-Release unit, ward 122, capacity of 34.