WOMEN'S PRISON OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND

Jessups, Md.

Mrs. Helen deCorse McArthur, Superintendent
Population, June 31st, 1943:

White women............................................ 44
Colored women............................................... 92

Total............................................ 136
Employment:
Maintenance:

Laundry............................................... 14
Garden and Grounds............................. 21
Kitchen and Cottages.................................. 59

Store Room....................................... 3
State Use (Sewing Industry) ............................. 22
Unassigned (new admissions and infirmary patients). .. . . . . 14
Incapacitated............................................ 3

Total............................................... 136

STATE BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE

120 West Redwood Street, Baltimore..1

Name post Office Term Expires
W. Wallace Lanahan, Chairman ..........Baltimore............... ... ..............1947
Lee L. Dopkin.......... ... .... ........... .........Baltimore ..... ..... ............. ... ...1946
William L. Galvin.................................... Baltimore .................. . ......... 1946
Sidney Hollander............... .............. .....Baltimore....................... ..........1945
George M. Moffett...................... ...........Queenstown................... ..........1944
Thomas W. Pangborn.............................Hagerstown ......... ....... ...........1948
Mrs. J. Enos Ray.....................................Hyattsville................ .. ..........1949
James M. Hepborn........... . ............. Baltimore............. ........ ... 1949
Ernest O. Wheatley............... ...........Salisbury..................... .. ...... 1945

J. Milton Patterson, Director of Public Welfare and Secretary of Board
of Public Welfare.

Bychapter 797 of the Acts of 1943, the membership of the Board was
increased from seven to nine, and the Governor was authorized to designate
the Chairman and to arrange the terms of the members so that they would
hold office for staggered terms of six years, the terms of three members ex-
piring on June 1st of every second year.

This Act declares the State Department of Public Welfare to be the cen-
tral, coordinating and directing agency of all welfare activities in the State,
including Aid to Dependent Children, Old age Assistance, Public Assistance
to the Needy Blind, General Public Assistance, Child Welfare Services, and
any other welfare activities financed in whole or in part by the State or
Federal Government..

In each county there is a County Welfare Board, constituting an ad-
ministrative department of the local government, with authority to adminis-
ter under the supervision, direction and control of the State Department,
the welfare activities within such county, including the care of neglected,
dependent and delinquent children, and the rendering of probation service
to juvenile courts or other courts having jurisdiction over minors. Each