in cases of prosecution of violations of such laws. The Division also
enforces the provisions of the law relating to the manufacture and
sale of bedding and upholstered furniture.

Miss Gertrude B. Knipp, A.B., is Chief of the Division of Public
Health Education. Her duties include assembling and distributing in-
formation on health promotion and disease prevention; preparing bul-
letins in popular form for press purposes, with special reference to use
in the counties; preparing circulars and arranging reports and other
printed matter bearing upon the work of the Department.

Dr. Richard C. Leonard, D.D.S., is chief of the Division of Oral
Hygiene. His duties include the organization and supervision of
county school dental clinics wherein preschool and school children
are examined and either referred to a family dentist, or, in the case
of indigent children, given free care. Educational work on the im-
portance and maintenance of mouth health is carried on through lec-
tures, clinics, moving pictures and pamphlets distributed through the
Division.

In addition to the Executive Office the Department consists of
the following bureaus and divisions, the duties of which are described
below:

The Bureau of Vital Statistics registers and makes statistical
studies of all births and deaths, marriages, and divorces occurring in
Maryland; licenses and registers midwives and regulates the trans-
portation of the dead. It also maintains a service for issuing certi-
fied copies of certificates of births and deaths. On. registration of
births, certificates are sent to parents of all children born in the
counties of Maryland and cards certifying to the date of birth are
furnished for entrance to school and for work permits.
Arthur W. Hedrich, Sc. D... Chief, Baltimore.
The Bureau of Communicable Diseases receives daily reports
from Health Officers of communicable diseases; investigates out-
breaks of diseases and directs measures for their control; enforces
the laws on the notification of reportable diseases and the smallpox
vaccination law; aids in maintaining tuberculosis clinics and keeps
a separate and confidential record of all cases of tuberculosis and
of venereal diseases; maintains venereal disease clinics, directs med-
ical inspection of public schools and investigates nuisances. The Divi-
sion of Epidemiology and the Pasteur Division are under this Bureau.

By an Act of Legislature, March, 1937, the Maryland State De-
partment of Health was designated as the agency of the State to ad-
minister and supervise the program of services for children who are
crippled or who are suffering from conditions which lead to crippling.
This service is also under the Bureau of Communicable Diseases.

C. H. Halliday, M.D., Epidemiologist, investigates the occurrence,
distribution and type of communicable diseases in individuals and
communities in the counties of Maryland, in order that measures for
the control of such diseases may be instituted. The Division studies
the sources and routes of infection, assists local health authorities
or family physicians in the diagnosis of communicable diseases, assists
in finding unrecognized or unreported cases and advises in regard
to the proper method for the collection of laboratory specimens. The
Chief of the Division also assists in diphtheria, typhoid fever and
smallpox immunizations when the latter cannot be done by private
physicians or by local health officers.

C. W. G. Rohrer, M.D., Ph.D., Diagnostician, aids in the diagnosis
of communicable diseases, notably those of the exanthematous group.
He acts in.. an advisory capacity to medical inspectors and other physi-
cians in matters pertaining to the prevention and further spread ..of
such diseases. He is in charge of the Pasteur Division and admin-