Commissioner of Mental Hygiene:
Dr. George H. Preston, 330 N. Charles St., Baltimore.

Members of the Board:
Name Address. Term Expire.
Dr. G. Lane Taneyhill Baltimore City 1935
Dr. George H. Hocking .. Baltimore County 1935
Dr. J. Albert Chatard Baltimore City 1937
Dr. Henry M. Thomas, Jr....._Baltimore City 1937
Dr. Hugh H. YoungBaltimore City 1940
Mrs. Allan L Carter Baltimore City 1940

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 DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES
BOARD OF STATE AID AND CHARITIES.
407 Union Trust Building, Baltimore.
Director of Charities and Chairman, Samuel E. Shannahan.
Name Postofflee Term Expires.
Governor Albert C. Ritchie Annapolis 1935
Thomas B. Finan Cumberland 1935
Richard F. Cleveland......Baltimore1935
James H. Gambrill, JrFrederick 1935
Sidney Hollander.......Baltimore 1937
William L. Galvin.............Baltimore 1937
Samuel E. Shannahan..Easton 1937
Dr. Robert H. Riley, Director State Department of Health.
Secretary, William J. Ogden.
Chief Clerk, Harriette S. Kearfott.
Supervisor of Social Welfare, Anita J. Faatz, Baltimore.
Governor appoints six members of the Board of State Aid and
Charities for terms of four years each. The Governor is a member of
the Board. (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.)
By Chapter 632, Acts of 1927, the Board is empowered to issue
annual licenses to Institutions, Associations Agencies and Individuals
having the care, custody and control of children with certain excep-
tions. It also is empowered to revoke same.