MARYLAND TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM COMMISSION

Institution at State Sanatorium, Frederick County -
Ex-Officio Members:

Governor Harry W. Nice.........................................................................................................Annapolis
Comptroller Wm. S. Gordy, Jr......................................................................................Salisbury
Treasurer Hooper S. Miles........................................................................................................Salisbury

Appointed Members: Term Expires.
H. Warren Buckler, M.D., Pres. Baltimore .................................................................1941
Charles H. Conley, M.D., V.P..........Frederick, Md. ................................1943
Col. Geo. W. Rife, Sec..Treas........Baltimore .........................................................................1943
J. Hall Pleasants, M.D.......................Baltimore ..............................................................1939
Charles Schmidt.................... ........................................Baltimore ..............................................................................1939
L. K. Woodward, M.D.....................................Westminster ....................................................1941
Frederick M. Supplee....................................Baltimore ..........................................................1943
Superintendent and General Superintendent of Tubercular Sana-
toria, Dr. Victor F. Cullen.

The members of this board are appomted for the term of six years.
The terms of two expire every legislative year. The Governor, the
Comptroller and the Treasurer are ex-officio members of the board.

The State Sanatorium cares for 508 patients, and Mount Wilson
cares for 170 patients. The population of the Eastern Shore Branch i»
60 patients. Henryton cares for about 222 patients, all colored.

The State's program for the hospitalization of tubercular patients
has been practically completed, and is expected to meet the demands
of at least a number of years. The facilities are among the finest in
the country, and are recognized everywhere as combining economy in
operation and excellence in treatment.

Among white people the death rate was reduced from 150.8 per
100,000 in 1917 to 52 in 1937. The colored death rate was reduced from
413.6 in 1917 to 206 in 1937 and now over one-half of the deaths from
tuberculosis are among colored people, which represents about one-
sixth of our population.

EASTERN SHORE BRANCH.
Institution at Salisbury, Md.

Pine Bluff.
Dr. Paul Cohen, Superintendent.

Chapter 12» of the Acts of 1927 abolished the Eastern Shore Tu-
berculosis Sanatorium Commission, transferring its powers, etc., to the
above Board.

MOUNT WILSON BRANCH.

Institution at Mount Wilson, Baltimore County, Md.
Dr. Julia A. Smith, Superintendent.

COLORED BRANCH.

Institution at Henryton, Carroll County, Md.
Dr. Reuben Hoffman, Superintendent.