habilitation than prisoners serving sentences in jails and penitentiaries.
Many never knew what it felt like to have the sun shine on them, or to
work off their energies in open air exercises or indoor games.

This Clifton T. Perkins State Hospital, in addition to maximum
security features, has a gymnasium and excellent rehabilitation and
recreational facilities. It is fully equipped with a complete laboratory,
EEC and X-Ray, as well as dental, pharmaceutical and other supporting
services. There is an admission ward, a diagnostic ward, an infirmary,
residential wards and a special maximum security ward. The medical
staff consists of four physicians, and consultant services are provided
from nearby medical centers in Baltimore and Washington. All of the
present methods of psychiatric treatment, including drug and shock
therapy, group and individual therapy, are practiced here. An excellent
ratio of staff to patients is provided to permit an active treatment
program within the security requirements of the hospital. It includes
a full-time staff of psychologists, social workers, and rehabilitation
personnel. In addition to the basic nursing staff which is under pro-
fessional direction and supervision.

That rich opportunities are present for training and research in
the relationship of psychiatry to the law is attested by the presence
of regular staff meetings of Professor L. Whiting Farinsholt, Jr., of the
University of Maryland School of Law, who is your principal speaker
today. The close integration of medicine and the law here makes it
possible for the hospital to broaden its services to include patients
referred by the courts of Maryland for pre-trial psychiatric evaluation
to better determine their "responsibility" at the time the crime was
committed, as well as to provide hospitalization for inmates of penal
institutions who become severely ill and for patients in other mental
hospitals who need to be placed in a maximum security situation for
a period of treatment. We may safely expect that with the development
of mutual understanding between representatives of psychiatry and the
law, even greater improvements will come about.

As the Governor of Maryland, I am delighted to have the op-
portunity to participate in the dedication of the Clifton T. Perkins
State Hospital. I am sure that this marks another pioneering effort of
the State of Maryland to provide adequate care and psychiatric services
for the mentally ill of our State.