and 1933. The Commission is composed of eighteen members
appointed by the Governor for nine year terms (Code 1947 Supp.
Art. 49B). The Commission has made a survey of the political,
economic and social needs of the Negro population of Maryland. It
acts as a clearing house for information concerning the Negro in
Maryland. Acting in cooperation with the State officials and agencies
and officials of local governmental units, the Commission attempts to
find the cause and practical solutions to the special problems con-
fronting the Negro. The Commission also cooperates in exchanging
information and data with other race-relation agencies throughout
the United States..

1948 1949
Appropriations $8,000 $8,000
Staff: 1..

BOARD OF MENTAL HYGIENE.

Chairman: George H. Preston, M.D..

F. S. Robertson, 1943; Waitman F. Zinn, 1949; Kenneth
B. Jones, 1952; Edith Stern, 1952; Andrew C. Gillis, 1968;
Thomas H. Sprunt, 1953.
George H. Preston, Commissioner.

330 North Charles Street, Baltimore 1 Telephone: Saratoga 3934.

The Board of Mental Hygiene was created in 1922, under Governor
Ritchie's Reorganization Plan. The Governor, with the consent of the
Senate, appoints a Commissioner of Mental Hygiene and six associate
members of the Board. The Commissioner, who serves as Chairman
of the Board, is appointed upon the recommendation of the associate
members and for no specified term of office. The associate members
hold office for six years. Of the associate members, three at least are
from the City of Baltimore, four at least are physicians, and one
must be a woman (Code 1939, Art. 59, sec. 15)..

This agency cooperates with the State hospitals and with private
hospitals in planning future activity and methods of care for the
mentally ill, both within institutions and in the community. Major
effort has been directed toward improving hospital service and
clinic service for the mentally ill. This Board supplanted the Lunacy
Commission which for thirty-eight years had had as its function re-
sponsibility for the mentally afflicted wards of Maryland. The duties
and powers of the Board remained unchanged and it continued to
function as a separate Board, in cooperation and consultation with
the Director of Welfare. Admissions are taken care of in the hos-
pitals themselves, and the operation and management of these insti-
tutions are in the charge of the several superintendents..

Publications: Study of Feebleminded, Epileptic and Psychotic
Children made jointly with the Department of Public Wel-
fare, 1946.
Annual Report, 1946,1947..

Appropriations: 1948 1949
General Funds $25,939 $26,396
Boarding-Out Care $65,831 $68,876.

Staff: 8..