THE DEPARTMENT OF WELFARE

709 Union Trust Building.
Stuart S. Janney, Director.

Board of Welfare

Stuart S, Janney, Chairman Baltimore City 1931
Dr. Charles R. Austrian Baltimore City . 1935
Dr. Frederick H. Vinup Baltimore City 1935
Dr. Lewellys F. Barker Baltimore City ... 1931
Mrs. Margaret M, Brown Baltimore City ... 1931
John T. Daily ... Baltimore City . 1934
Mrs. Elizabeth T. Kent Baltimore City . 1934
Robert D. Case, Secretary and Treasurer, Baltimore.

The head of the Department of Welfare is the Board of Welfare,
consisting of the Director of Welfare, who also serves as Chairman of
the Board, and six associate members, appointed without regard to po-
litical affiliation. It is provided by law that one associate member shall
always be a woman. The associate members are so classed that the terms
of office of two expire every two years. The term of office of each asso-
ciate member is six years. The term of the director is four years.

MARYLAND PENITENTIARY.

Baltimore, Md.
Patrick J. Brady, Warden.
Population June 26,1929:

White 512
Colored . - 703

Total 1215

Employment:

Contract Labor 865
State use . . ... 65
Work of Institution 123
Idle 162

Earnings of Institution for year ended September 30, 1928:
Employment of labor by Contractors $277,992.74
State use (net profits)' 29,026.78
Shoes for State Institutions 407.00
State Printing 13,617.21
Manufacture of auto tags 11,002.57

Total earnings $303,019.52
During the same period the prisoners earned for their own account
By their labor under contract system $136,865.72
By their labor pi educing articles for the state 8,957.10

Total earnings of prisoners $145,822.82

The Penitentiary being overcrowded, the Board of Welfare was au-
thorized by the last Legislature to select a site for additional prison or
prisons.