MARYLAND MANUAL 63

William F. Reindollar, SC.D., Acting Chief, Division of In-
dustrial Health

J. Davis Donovan, Chief, Division of Legal Administration
Paul V. Lemkau, M.D., Chief, Division of Mental Hygiene
Richard C. Leonard, D.D.S., Chief, Division of Oral Hygiene
Clemens W. Gaines, Chief, Division of Personnel and Accounts
Helen L. Fisk, R.N., Chief, Division of Public Health Nursing
Leon H. Hetherington, M.D., Chief, Division of Tuberculosis
Services

Ann R. Matthews, M.P.H., Chief Nutritionist
Consultants:

Joseph Earle Moore, M.D., Venereal Diseases

George E. Bennett, M.D., Services for Crippled Children

Grant E. Ward, M.D., Cancer Control

J. H. Mason Knox, Jr., M.D., Child Hygiene

Ralph P. Truitt, M.D., Mental Hygiene

Allen W. Freeman, M.D., Public Health Administration

2411 North Charles Street, Baltimore 18 Telephone: Belmont 4280

The Department of Health, established in 1874, is governed by the
State Board of Health. The Board is composed of the Director of the
Department of Health, who also serves as its chairman, the Commis-
sioner of Health of Baltimore City and six members appointed by the
Governor for a term of six years (Code 1947 Supp., Art. 43, sec. 4).

The Department of Health functions through twenty-three sanitary
districts organized throughout the State along county lines and
through the health department organized in each of the counties. Each
county health department is in charge of a Health Officer who also
serves as the Deputy State Health Officer for his district. For regu-
latory purposes, the Montgomery County Council and the Board of
County Commissioners in each of the other counties serves ex-officio
as the county board of health (Code 1939, 1947 Supp., Art. 43, sees.
6-10, 45-60, 52; Acts 1949, Ch. 89).

Within the Executive office work regarding Public Health Educa-
tion, nutrition and dietetics is carried on. The Public Health Educa-
tion program includes assembling and distributing information on
health promotion and disease prevention; preparing press releases,
issuing a monthly bulletin; and compiling reports and other printed
materials concerning the work of the Department. The Nutrition Pro-
gram is educational. It stresses the need for adequate and well-
balanced diets, and provides consultation in county and school clinics.
The Consultant Dietitian is concerned with improving the diets in
hospitals and institutions, particularly in the State tuberculosis
hospitals.

Eight bureaus established by Acts of the General Assembly func-
tion within the State Department of Health (Code 1939 & 1947 Supp.,
Art. 43, sees. 33 & 191). Each is responsible for a particular phase
of the public health program.

The Bureau of Communicable diseases, authorized by law in 1910,
investigates the occurrence, distribution, and types of communicable
diseases reported in the communities, assists the local health authori-
ties and private physicians in diagnosis of such diseases, aids in the
finding of unreported cases, and gives advice on the collection of
laboratory specimens. The Bureau also administers the Pasteur treat-
ment to those who may have been exposed to rabies, distributes free
vaccine upon request of private physicians, and sponsors a venereal