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The commission reports on the construction of the Maximum Detention Buildings. Between the two campuses, there will be six buildings with a total capacity of 912 patients.

The commission reports the completion of the two Maximum Detention Buildings at State Park, as well as the impending demolition of the Taylor Building.

The commission summarizes the major building program of the past six years. Includes an unidentified photo of a Maximum Detention Buildling. Based on the longer rear wings, it must be Saunders, Cooper, Davis, or Shand.

A page from a pamphlet entitled "Mental Health: Progress and Promise 1952-1972" shows an artist rendering of how the Chapel of Hope will look when completed.

The Personnel Division section in the 1954 Annual Records lists the following reasons for the employment drop between 1950-1951: "ren-entry of the U.S. into war, the re-activation of Fort Jackson and the contruction of an atomic energy material plant…

B&W photograph of first graduating class of State Hospital's physciatric residency program, June 30, 1963.

This page describes the recommendation of the State to rewrite their mental health laws and focus on the "woeful conditions existing in the State, Hospital, the most over crowded mental hospital in the United States…"

B&W table showing discrepancy in South Carolina State Hospital's staffing numbers and the standards of the APA.

"The years 1951-1954 have been as a result the greatest period of sustained construction in the more than 125 years of the hospitals existance." "To replace the kitchen at the Columbia Division, from which the hospital was attempting to feed more…

On September 4, 1954 the new Food Service building was completed and contained a Cafeteria, Kitchen, and Bakery. Construction and Equipment cost was $1,281,901.52. This new building caters to feeding both Columbia and State Park divisions.