Employment:

Maintenance ...... ....... 149
Unassigned .. .. .. ......... 13
Incapacitated.. .. .....-3

Total .. 165

STATE BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
120 West Redwood Street, Baltimore I, Maryland
Telephone: LExington 0060

Name Postoffice Term Expires
W. Wallace Lanahan, Chairman Baltimore.. .. ...1947
Lee L. Dopkin .. ............Baltimore ...... 1946
William L. Galvin............ ...... Baltimore.... .. 1951
James M. Hepbron .... .. Baltimore —...... .....1949
Ernest O. Wheatley.............. .. Salisbury .................1951
Sidney Hollander — ............ Baltimore —.. .....1951
George M. Moffett........ ... ... ... —.. — Queenstown .. ..... ..... 1944
Thomas W. Pangborn.. ........... ......Hagerstown........ — 1948
Mrs. J. Enos Ray —.. —.......... Hyattsville.. .. 1949

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

By Chapter 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 expiring on June 1st of every second year.

This Act declares the State Department of Public Welfare to be the
central, 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
administrative department of the local government, with authority to
administer 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 ren-
dering of probation service to juvenile courts or other courts having
jurisdiction over minors. Each County Board consists of seven per-
sons, who are appointed for six-year terms, with the exception of
the County Commissioner member, who is designated each year by
the Board of County Commissioners.

The duties of the State Department include the supervision of all
public and private institutions having the care, custody, or control of
dependent, delinquent, abandoned or neglected children; the investiga-
tion of the system of public and private institutions, organizations
and agencies of a charitable nature in the State, including those
which receive part of their income from the State, except those placed
by law under the supervision of another State agency; and furnishing
to the Governor, prior to the convening of each regular session of
the General Assembly, a report of its activities and of the condition
of all charitable institutions, organizations and agencies, including