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Mrs. Inez Nola Fripp, executive secretary with the S.C. State Hospital, receives a certificate for 50 years continuous service from Dr. William S. Hall, State Commissioner of Mental Health and Superintendent for the hospital. On the wall is an…

Superintendent Williams S. Hall, far left, stands with students of the Academy for Pastoral Education

Superintendent William S. Hall shovels soil at the Chapel of Hope groundbreaking ceremony while J. Rupert McGregor, Chairman of the Committee for the Chapel Fund and C. M. Tucker, Chairman of the S.C. Mental Health Commission look on.

A news story from the State Newspaper about the cornerstone laying ceremony for the Chapel of Hope with projected costs.

A news story about the Good Neighbor Program where churches from throughout Columbia adopted wards at the South Carolina State Hospital.

Describes changes to building.

Brief description of the naming of the Babcock building on "Administration Building" folder tag.

Excerpts from the annual report of the Asylum's superintendent, 1874, discussing progress on the construction of the south wing of the building, request to levy a special tax to fund further construction of the building, the need for more space at…

Superintendent Babcock repeats what he wrote in the 1895 annual report that the "rapidity in the course of tuberculosis in the colored race as compared with the white also calls for comment." He includes a report from the 1907 annual report: "To…

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