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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.

Map of State Mental Hospital, LaBorde is labeled as "W.M.T.B. 1929" - Perhaps 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.

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…

"To replace the kitchen at the Columbia Division, from which the hospital was attempting to feed more than 3,000 patients with equipment designed to feed only 1,800…"

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…"