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$82.50 spent on bedsprings during this year.

Lists 4 white males as working in the factory. The year before, the first time the building was mentioned, there was an employee working at the factory instead of patients.

Cost for mattress factory supplies listed as $35. No salary or pay for the patients.

The functions of the Mattress Factory are only mentioned very briefly now. These activities are still done by workers and they are regarded as Industrial Therapy.

The Mattress Factory was part of the "Supply Division" during this time. In 1957 it produced 2,476 mattresses and 1,733 mattress covers.

Mattress Factory is part of "supply division" during this time. It made 3,372 mattresses and 1,828 mattress covers this year.

Lists 9 white male workers. This is the highest number of workers recorded by the annual reports found.

An excerpt from the Annual Report for the year 1909-Superintendent's Report summarizing previous annual reports in order to convey a need for a second building for African American patients

Board Regents minutes from May 29, 1929: Records bids received for building the Tuberculosis ward at the State Hospital in Columbia, and the decision to accept the lowest bid, proposed by Mechanics Contracting Co., of $22,981.

The Board of Regents reiterates Babcock's concern about admitting patients accused of crimes on an indefinite basis. The Board also calls for moving all high risk patients to separate wards.