WORCESTER COUNTY WELFARE BOARD
Washington and Market Streets, Snow Hill, Maryland

Telephone: 191

Miss Cecilia P. Houston, Executive Secretary

Members Address Term Expires
Harlan Robertson ................Pocomoke City, Md— ................1946

Chairman
Samuel E. Shockley.............Snow Hill, Md.......................1946

County Commissioner
Ralph A. Ross...........................2nd Street, ..... ....... .......... .......1950

Pocomoke City, Md.

Dr. James T. Cabler...............Pearl Street...................1950
Snow Hill, Md.

Mrs. Lena Bowen Layton— ....Bay Street ...............................1940
Berlin, Md.

Rev. Elmer R. Shield........Washington Street....... ............ ...1948
Snow Hill, Md.

Mrs. J. Richard Phillips....The Oaks, Decatur Street— .........1946
Berlin, Md.

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..........................Baltimore

Appointed Members: Term Expires
H. Warren Buckler, M.D., Pros.....Baltimore ..........1947
Charles H. Conley, M.D., V.P...Frederick ..........1949
Sidney Greenfield ............Baltimore .........1949
Frank J. Geraghty, M.D...............Baltimore ..... ..........1951
Charles Schmidt ... ...............Baltimore ...........1951
L. K. Woodward, M.D.......Westminster — ......1947
H. Maceo Williams, M.D.......Baltimore .........1949
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 510 patients, and Mount Wilson
cares for 201 patients. The population of the Eastern Shore Branch
is 75 patients. Henrytown cares for about 368 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 1940. The colored death rate was reduced
from 413.6 in 1917 to 206 in 1940 and now over one-half of the deaths
from tuberculosis are among colored people, which represents about
one-sixth of our population.