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Lists Ward B-21 (LaBorde) as 5700 square ft in area; estimated replacement cost of $40,000; estimated depreciated value at $18,000; estimated cost of needed repairs at $3,300; estimated building value after repairs at $21,300; patient capacity of 46;…

Newspaper article describes the path of the tour Governor Brynes and the state legislature took on Tuesday, January 8, 1952. Although LaBorde is not identified by name, its description follows that of the Taylor Building. "The guide moved his party…

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…

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

Reports that there was an urgent need at the institution in Columbia to build a Tuberculosis Ward Building with forty beds for white male patients that were then housed in the Parker Annex.

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…

LaBorde is labeled as "W.M.T.B. 1929," which stands for White Male Tuberculosis. Note that the building is still not called LaBorde in 1941.

Describes the enlargement of one ward building at the Columbia campus to house both male and female tuberculosis patients, making 100 beds available. By 1951, LaBorde no longer housed TB patients.