STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
No. 16 West Saratoga Street, Baltimore.
Name.
Ex-Officio Members:

Dr. John S. Fulton.................................... Secretary
Dr. John D. Blake....................... Commissioner of Health
Hon. Albert O. Ritchie. .........................Attorney General
Appointed by the Governor:

Name Postoffice. Term Expires.
Dr. William H. Welch. ....... Baltimore ..................1928
Vacancy .................................................. 1922
Dr. William W. Ford. ......... .Baltimore.. ............... ..1920
Tolley A. Biays, (C. E.).. ..... .Baltimore. ................. .1920
Chief Clerk:
Walter N. Kirkman.................................. Halethorpe

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

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

Dr. Frederic V. Beitler, Chief, Baltimore, 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 infections diseases, en-
forces the laws on notification of infectious diseases and the vaccination
law; and keeps a separate and confidential record of all cases of tuber-
culosis.

Dr. C. Hampson Jones, Chief, Baltimore.

Through its Bureau of Bacteriology and Bureau of Chemistry, assists
physicians in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infectious dis-
eases, 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 B. Stokes, Chief Bacteriologist, Baltimore.
Dr. W. W. Randall, Chief Chemist, Baltimore.

Through its Bureau of Sanitary Engineering, exercises supervision
over the purity of the waters of the State; examines all sewage 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.
Robert B. Morse, Chief, 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. Fred. O. Blanek, Commissioner, Baltimore.

Through its Deputy State Health Officers, 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.