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"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…

"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…

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…

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 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."

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…

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…