1908 Annual Report, "Report of the Superintendent"

1908 Annual Report, "Report of the Superintendent"

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 obviate this crowded condition, the Regents are making an effort to purchase a farm near the city of Columbia, where the mildly insane, epileptics, and tubercular patients can be kept....Under the present conditions, the tubercular patients cannot be separated from the non-infected." The previous year (1907) the Board of Health reported that "no provisions have been made for the isolation of tubercular patients, and they are allowed to sleep and mingle with others not infected, thereby causing a continual spread of this disease in this Institution." The Board of Health recommended that land be purchased outside of Columbia to build this Farm Colony.

S.C. State Hospital

Container 2, S 190002, Mental Health Commission, Annual Reports of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health 1905-1958, South Carolina Department of Archives and History

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Date Digital: 2014-02-21

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