BOARD OF MENTAL HYGIENE.

Commissioner of Mental Hygiene:

Dr. Arthur P. Herring, 33 N. Charles St., Baltimore.
Members of the Board:

Name. Address. Term Expire.
Dr. Henry J. Berkley.....................Baltimore City ...................................1924
Dr. George H. Hoeking.................. Baltimore County ..............................1924_
Dr. J. Albert Ghatard................. .Baltimore City . ......... . .......1926 -'
H. Findlay French........................Baltimore City .. 1926 -
Dr. Hugh H. Young........................BaTtimore City ..................................1928
Miss Margaret S. Brogden...........Baltimore City ............................ .1928—
The Governor, with the consent of the Senate, appoints a Commis-
sioner of Mental Hygiene and six associate members of the Board, The
Commissioner is appointed upon the recommendation of the Associate
Members and for no specified term of office. The first appointments of
Associate Members under the Act are as follows: 2 until the first Mon-
day in May, 1924; 2 until the first Monday in May, 1926, and 2 until
the first Monday in May, 1928., As these terms expire successors are
appointed for 6 years from the first Monday in May. (Ch. 29, 1922.)
This board succeeds the State Lunacy Commission.

THE DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES

BOARD OF STATE AID AND CHARITIES.

405 Union Trust Building, Baltimore.
Director of Charities and Chairman, Dr. Philip Briscoe.

Name. Postoffice. Term Expires.
Governor Albert C. Ritchie................. Baltimore ....................................................1924
Frank A. Furst.................................................Baltimore ....................................................1924
George W. Rife............................................ Baltimore.......................................... .1924
Philip Briscoe......................................................Mutual .........................................................1924
Henry Castelberg.............................................Baltimore ...................................................1926
Robert Biggs....................................................Baltimore ................................................1926
Samuel E. Shannahan..................Easton .................................................. 1926
Secretary, William J. Ogden.

Governor appoints six members of the Board of State Aid and
Charities, three for two years and three for four years, and as these
terms expire successors are appointed for the full term of four years.
The Governor is a member of the Board. Two of the Board may be
women. (Ch. 705, Acts 1916.)

The duties of this Board are to investigate and consider the whole
system of State aid to public and private institutions. It investigates
all applications of institutions for aid from the State and submits to
each Legislature a report showing the condition that it finds at each
of the institutions so applying, together with recommendations con-
cerning them. It is the official representative of the State in regard to
charitable matters and has the administration of the laws regarding the
placement of children in this State by out-of-State agencies, and the
supervision of the law prohibiting the separation of babies from their
mothers during the first six months after birth. (Ch. 42, Acts of 1908;
and 210, Acts of 1916.)
The Secretary is charged with the duty of informing himself fully