Working with existing facilities and resources on the Shore, Dr. Eng-
lish and his staff have expanded their services, through such programs as
increased outpatient clinics and follow-up services, the setting up of day
centers and the exchange of information between hospital staff and com-
munity agency personnel. I am told that within the past month he has
made the resources of this hospital available to the Commission on the
Aging as a means of helping local agencies carry on their programs.

We can look forward to the Eastern Shore State Hospital's continuing
in a place of leadership on the Delmarva Peninsula, quite in keeping with
the theme of its golden anniversary; "Eastern Shore State Hospital—Hub
of Regional Psychiatric Services. " In commemorating this important
event in the history of mental hygiene in Maryland, let us pledge our-
selves to strive unceasingly and unyieldingly to the end that the victims
of mental illness and mental retardation may fare better in the future
than they have in the past.

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