MARYLAND TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM COMMISSION
Institution at State Sanatorium, Frederick County

Ex-Officio Members:

Governor Herbert R. O'Conor. ................................. ..Annapolis
Comptroller J. Millard Tawes. .................................... ..Crisfield
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
Frank J. Gerahty.................... Baltimore ...................... 1945
Charles Schmidt............ Baltimore ................... 1945
L. K. Woodward, M..D......... Westminster ................. .1941
Frederick M. Supplee............ Baltimore ............... 1943
Superintendent and General Superintendent of Tubercular
Sanatoria, Dr. Victor F. Cullen.

The members of this board are appointed for the term of six years.
The term 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
is 75 patients. Henryton cares for about 263 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 129 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. John A. Smith, Superintendent.

COLORED BRANCH

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