Chief Clerk:

Walter N. Kirkman. ................................ .Halethorpe
General Counsel:

Wm. Pinkney Whyte, Jr................................ .Ruxton
Special Counsel:
Hy. M. McCullough. ................................... ..Elkton

The Board consists of the Attorney General, Health Commissioner
of Baltimore, a Secretary appointed by the Board and four members
appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, two bien-
nially for a term of four years from the first day in January. Of
those appointed by the Governor, three shall be physicians and one a
Civil Engineer. (Bagby Code, Art. 43, See. 1.)

The State Board of Health, through its Bureau of Vital Statistics,
registers all marriages, birth and deaths, occurring in Maryland,
licenses and registers midwives, and regulates the transportation of the
dead .

Dr. Frederic V. Beitler, Chief, Halethorpe, Maryland.
Through its Bureau of Communicable Diseases, receives from local
health officers, daily reports of infectious diseases, investigates and super-
vises the management of outbreaks of infectious diseases; makes and
enforces regulations concerning the control of infectious diseases, en-
forces the laws on notification of infectious diseases and the vaccination
law; and keeps a separate and confidential records of all cases of
tuberculosis.

Dr. C. W. G. Rohrer, Acting Chief, Lauraville, Maryland.
Through its Bureau of Bacteriology and Bureau of Chemistry, assists
physicians in the diagnosis treatment and prevention of infectious
diseases, determines the sanitary quality of drinking water, milk, other .
food substances, and drugs; makes immunizing substances such as anti-
typhoid vaccine; tests the efficiency of operations for the purification of
water and the disinfection of sewage.

Dr. William R. Stokes, Chief, 1639 N. Calvert St., Baltimore.
Through its Bureau of Sanitary Engineering, exercises supervision
over the purity of the waters of the State; examines all sewerage and
water supply projects, and approves or amends them; can require local
authorities to install sewerage or water works, or to alter the construction
or operation of the same.
Mr. D. Mackibbin, Asst. Engineer, Station D., Baltimore.

Through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, controls the purity of
foods and drugs, and inspects pharmacies, dairies, canneries, slaughter-
houses, markets and other places where foods are produced, sold, manu-
factured or stored.
Dr. Charles Caspari, Jr., Commissioner, 1129 Harlem Ave. Baltimore.

Through its Deputy State Health Offices, exercises direct supervision
over all matters affecting the public health in each of the several sub-
divisions of the State, known as Sanitary Districts, and comprising one,
two or three counties.

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DIRECTORS.

Name. Postoffice. Term Expires.
Thomas Footer. ............... .Cumberland. ............. ..1916
John Keating ................. Cumberland. ............... 1916
W. W. Hanley. ................ .Cumberland. .............. .1916
H. A. Bachman................. Cumberland ................1916
W. W. Brown. ................ .Cumberland. ............. ..1916
Hope Carleton ................. Cumberland ................1916
John W. Young. .............. .Cumberland. ............. ..1916