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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…

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 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…

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…

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

Describes changes to building.

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

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

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.

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