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An 1842 record of meeting minutes showing Superintendent Maximilian Laborde request for assistance from local clergy.

Dr. Arthur P. Herring recommends to Governor Manning that there should be "special provision for the tuberculosis patients" at the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane.

The Board examined drawings for the proposed ward building for State Park and Tuberculosis building for Columbia presented by Mr. Robert S. Lafaye of the firm of Lafaye & Lafaye, Architects, and instructed Mr. Lafaye to procure bids for a special…

Records bids received for building the Tuberculosis ward at the State Hospital and the decision to accept the lowest bid, proposed by Mechanics Contracting Co., of $22,981.

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.

The Secretary of the Board of Regents presented the Mechanics Contracting Co. contract for the Tuberculosis Building Columbia and it was approved.

Bed Capacity Report from an Employee Orientation Manual; LaBorde is listed as Pre-Release unit, ward 122, capacity of 34.

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…

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,…

Babcock made recommendations to the General Assembly to separate tuberculosis patients from the non-tuberculosis after studying Watson's "Handbook of South Carolina." v