least five years. The hospital is equipped to care for 500 patients. It
now has about 480 patients.
1948 1949.

Appropriations $362,384 $388,937
Staff: 100..

SPRING GROVE STATE HOSPITAL.

Board of Managers:.

President; William G. Knapp, 1953.

John T. Tucker, Vice-President, 1953; G. Herbert Rice,
Secretary-Treasurer, 1949; Willie Green Day Perry, 1961;
Anton Hagel, 1949; Lester P. Goodhand, 1951; Lawrence K.
Blucher, 1951; J. Sterling Geatty, M.D., 1949; Robert Spittel,
1953.
Silas W. Weltmer, M.D., Superintendent.

Isadore Tuerk, M.D., Clinical Director
Catonsville 28 Telephone: Catonsville 400.

Spring Grove State Hospital is governed by a Board of Managers
composed of nine members appointed by the Governor for a term of
six years; the terms of three members expiring every two years
(Code 1939, Art. 44, sec. 1). The Hospital was established in 1797.
It provides for the hospitalization of mentally ill white persons. The
average number of patients is 2,630. The hospital is also conducting a
School of Practical Nursing..

Publications: History of Spring Grove State Hospital, 1797-
1947, published 1947..

1948 1949
Appropriations . ...$1,411,223 $1,531,825
Staff: 480..

SPRINGFIELD STATE HOSPITAL.

Board of Managers:.

Ex-officio Members: William Preston Lane, Jr., Governor;
James J. Lacy, Comptroller; Hooper S. Miles, Treasurer..

James Clark, 1951; Thomas J. Tingley, 1953; Charles Car-
roll, Jr., 1953; S. Luther Bare, 1949; James W. Toohey, 1949;
H. Hamilton Hackney, 1951.
Robert E. Gardner, M.D., Superintendent.

Sykesville Telephone; Sykesville 194.

The Governor, with the consent of the Senate, appoints six members
of the Board of Managers, for terms of six years. The Governor, the
Comptroller, and the Treasurer serve ex-officio (Code 1939, Art. 44,
sec. 12). The purpose of the hospital is the care of the mentally ill
of the State. There are about 2,970 patients hospitalized and about
820 on parole. For admission of county patients, applications are
made through the County Commissioners of the county in which the
patient is a resident, and on the certificates of two registered physi-
cians who have practiced at least five years. Patients are received
upon order of the Department of Public Welfare of Baltimore City..