Richard H. Diggs . . . ... ..... .. ..... ........ - .... ......Baltimore City
Dr. Frank E. Shipley. .. .... ...... ....... ...... .... . - ... . . ......Savage
Dr. Kenneth B. Jones, Superintendent.
P. B. H. McFeely, Secretary.

Board consists of seventeen members. Governor appoints to fill
vacancies only. (Ch. 183, 1888.)

This institution receives, trains and cares for the feeble-minded of
the State. For full particulars address the Superintendent at the In-
stitution.

BOARD OF MENTAL HYGIENE.
Commissioner of Mental Hygiene:

Dr. George H. Preston, 330 N. Charles St., Baltimore.
Members of the Board:

Name. Address. Term Expires.
Thomas P. Sprunt, M. D. ..Baltimore City , ,... 1941
Robert V. Seliger, M. D. Baltimore City 1941
J. Albert Chatard, M. D. Baltimore City 1937
Henry M. Thomas, Jr., M. D. Baltimore City - 1937
Hugh H. Young, M. D. Baltimore 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. Postoffice. Term Expires.
Governor Harry W. Nice,

Ex-Officio ---- - . . -....-Annapolis ... ........ ---- --- -1939
Thomas B. Finan -...............Cumberland - - -- -...- - - - 1939
Sidney Hollander-. -----Baltimore - - - - - 1937
William L. Galvin. --- ---. -Baltimore -.... -- 1937
Samuel E. Shannahan... ....Easton ...---.. - -....- - 1937
Lee L. Dopkin...............--Baltimore -.- .-- - 1939
Morris A. Rome --- --..-.. Baltimore ......- -.-- - --.. - 1939
Dr. Robert H. Riley, Director State Department of Health.
Chief Clerk, Harriette S. Kearfott.
Supervisor of Social Welfare, Anita J. Faatz, Baltimore.
J. Milton Patterson, Executive Secretary.

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.

The duties of this Board are to investigate and consider 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 concerning them. Old Age
Pensions, Care of Dependent Children and Emergency Relief arc ad-
ministered by this Board. 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.