Somerset.................................. Archibald Todd
St. Mary's ........................ .John- Franklin Adama
Talbot ............................... .Nehemiah E. Clark
Washington ................................ .Guy G. Gantz
Wicomico .............................. Whitefield S. Lowe
Worcester ............................. Charles V. Rowley
Baltimore City ........................... Harry C. Kilmer

STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
No. 16 West Saratoga Street, Baltimore.

Name.
Ex-Officio Members:

Dr. John S. Fulton................................. Secretary
Dr. C. Hampson Jones................ Commissioner of Health
Hon. Alexander Armstrong. ................ .Attorney General

Appointed by the Governor:

Name. Postoffice. Term Expires
Dr. William H. Welch. .... .Baltimore .................. .1922
Dr. Benjamin B. Perry. .... Rockville ................... 1922
Dr. William W. Ford. ...... Baltimore ................. ..1924
Tolley A. Biays, (C. E.) .... Baltimore ................... .1924
E. F. Kelly, Pharmacist.... Baltimore ................... 1924

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
appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, two bi-
ennially 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, Sec. 1.)

Governor appoints one additional member who shall be a registered
Pharmacist. Senate confirmation required. (Ch. 104, 1920.)

The State Board of Health, through its Bureau of Vital Statistics,
registers all marriages divorces, births and deaths, occurring in Mary-
land, 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
supervises the management of outbreaks of infectious diseases; makes
and enforces regulations concerning the control of infectious diseases,
enforces the laws on notification of infectious diseases and the vacci-
nation law; and keeps a separate and confidential record of all cases
of tuberculosis.

Dr. Robert H. Riley, Chief, Baltimore.

Through its Bureau of Bacteriology and Bureau of Chemistry, as-
sists physicians in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infec-
tious 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 puri-
fication of water and the disinfection of sewage.