MARYLAND MANUAL. 43

THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
16 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore.

Director of Health, Dr. John S. Fulton...................................................Baltimore
Ex-Officio Members:
Hon. Thos. H. Robinson.

Dr. C. Hampson Jones............................................Commissioner of Health
Appointed by the Governor:

Names. Addresses. Terms Expire.
Dr. John S. Fulton, Secretary................Baltimore .......................................1926
Dr. William, W. Ford........................................Woodbrook .......................................1929
E. F. Kelly, Pharmacist...............................Baltimore ...................................1929
Tolley A. Biays, Civil Eng.........................BaltiHiore ...................................1926
Dr. Benjamin S. Perry .. Bethesda.................. 1928
Dr. William H. Welch....................................Baltimore ...................................1928

The Board of eight members consists of the Attorney-General, Health
Commissioner of Baltimore and six members appointed by the Governor,
with the consent of the Senate, two biennially for a term of six years
from the first Monday in May, Of those appointed, by the Governor,
four shall be physicians, one a Civil Engineer and one & Certified Pharma-
cist. The Governor shall designate one of the four physicians as Chair-
man.*

The Board of Health, through its Bureau of Vital Statistics, regis-
ters 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 infections diseases, investigates and
supervises the management of outbreaks of intections diseases, enforces
the laws on notification of infectious diseases and the vaccination law;
and keeps a separate and confidential record of all cages of tuberculosis.
Dr. Robert H. Riley, Chief, Baltimore.

Through its Bureaus of Bacteriology and Chemistry, assists physi-
cians in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infectious diseases,
determines the sanitary quality of drinking water, milk, other food sub-
stances, 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. R. C. Salter, 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 con-
struction or operation of the game.
Abel Wolman, Chief, Baltimore.

Through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, controls the purity
of foods and drugs, and inspects pharmacies, dairies, canneries, slaugh-
terhouses, markets and other places where foods are produced, sold,
manufactured or stored.

* Due to Constitutional Amendment of 1922, appointments made in 1924 are for
a term of five years.