Eastern Shore, Troop D
Headquarters,
Barrack I. Easton
Barrack E. Salisbury
Publications: Report of Maryland State Police, 1939-1947, 1948..

1948 1949
Appropriations $1,428,790 $1,407,214.

Staff: 343..

DEPARTMENT OF POSTMORTEM EXAMINERS
MARYLAND POSTMORTEM EXAMINERS COMMISSION.

Chairman: Robert H. Riley, M.D., Director State Depart-
ment of Health
Vice-Chairman: Hugh R. Spencer, M.D., University of.

Maryland School of Medicine
Secretary, Huntington Williams, M.D., Commissioner of.

Health of Baltimore City
Arnold R. Rich, M.D., Johns Hopkins Hospital
Colonel Beverly Ober, Superintendent Maryland State Police
Medical and Technical Staff:.

Howard J. Maldeis, M.D., Chief Medical Examiner
George G. Merrill, M.D., Assistent Medical Examiner
Earl L. Boyer, M.D., Assistant Medical Examiner
John R. Davis, M.D., Medical Investigator
W. G. Helfrich, M.D., Medical Investigator
W. H. Kammer, Jr., M.D., Medical Investigator
C. J. Lubinski, M.D., Medical Investigator
Henry C. Freimuth, Ph.D., Toxicologist
John P. Haney, Technician, Pathological Laboratory.

700 Fleet Street, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Plaza 2000.

The executive direction of the Department of Postmortem Exam-
iners is vested in a Commission composed of the Director of the State
Department of Health, the Commissioner of Health of Baltimore City,
the Superintendent of Maryland State Police, and the Professors of
Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of
Maryland. The Department, which was established in 1939, replaces
the county coroner by Deputy Medical Examiners for each county who
are appointed by the Commission. It is the duty of the Department, or
the Deputy Medical Examiners assigned to it, to investigate violent
and suspicious deaths or those unattended by a physician. A report of
all deaths investigated must be filed with the Department. The rec-
ords of the Department are open for inspection to the family of the
deceased and are acceptable in Court as evidence of the facts con-
tained (Code 1939, Art. 22, secs. 1-7)..

Appropriations: 1948
City of Baltimore $53,634*.

Staff: 16. Deputy Medical Examiners, Substitutes, and
Pathologists: 95..

* The expenses of the agency are paid by the City of Baltimore,
excepting that the Deputy Medical Examiners of each county are paid
by the county for each death investigated..