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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…

Williams once again implores the state government to fund a building for patients undergoing forensic evaluation. The hospital receives blame when these patients escape. He also mentions regular patients who are prone to violence and require a secure…

Babcock objects to probate judges committing people to the hospital who are accused of crimes. He says those cases are within the purview of criminal courts, not civil courts. On a related note, he asks that the state penitentiary create its own…

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…

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

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

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

The annual report by Superintendent Coyt Ham illustrates efforts to provide services at both the Columbia campus and the State Park campus. The report also shows an early pastoral education program and prograss on the Church Building Fund.

Describes changes to building.