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,…
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.
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…
It states that in the early part of 1921 the original tin Mattress Factory burned. A new brick building then replaced the old one. It does not mention how many weeks or months passed.
Babcock made recommendations to the General Assembly to separate tuberculosis patients from the non-tuberculosis after studying Watson's "Handbook of South Carolina." v