Mark V. Ziegler, M.D., Chief, Bureau of Medical Services

and Hospitals

Edward Davens, M.D., Chief Bureau of Preventive Medicine
Leon H. Hetherington, M.D., Chief, Bureau of Tuberculosis
C. A. Perry, Sc.D., Chief, Bureau of Laboratories
Robert M. Brown, M.P.H., Chief, Bureau of Environmental

Hygiene
Clemens W. Gaines, Chief, Bureau of Management

2411 North Charles Street, Baltimore 18 Telephone: Belmont 5-4280

The State Department of Health, established in 1874, is governed
by the State Board of Health. The Board is composed of the Director
of the Department, who also serves as chairman, the Commissioner of
Health of Baltimore City, and six members appointed by the Gov-
ernor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to serve for terms
of six years (Code 1961, Art. 43, sec. 1).

The Department of Health serves the State through twenty-three
sanitary districts organized along county lines. Each county health
department is in charge of a health officer who serves as the Deputy
State Health Officer for his district. For regulatory 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 1951, Art. 43, sees. 6-10, 46-52).

The State Board of Health has broad and inclusive powers over
health and hygiene matters of the State. These functions and respon-
sibilities include: collection, study and publication of communicable
disease data; laboratory analysis of water, sewage, trade wastes, milk
products, food, drugs, and other materials that may be responsible
for the transmission of infectious diseases; examination and super-
vision of public and private water supply, sewage disposal, ventila-
tion, heat and lighting in public institutions and control of nuisances;
registration, tabulation and publication of vital statistics (including
birth, death and marriage records); study of the causes of death and
illness among mothers and young children and provisions of services
for mothers and children; administration of a medical care program
for indigent and medically indigent residents of Maryland's counties;
operation of the hospitals placed under the Board's jurisdiction;
investigation of complaints made by physicians or affected citizens;
licensing of midwives; laboratory testing of food and drug specimens
to assure compliance with laws prohibiting adulteration and mis-
branding and prosecution of violators (Code 1951, Art. 43, sees.
33-44).

To carry out these duties the Board of Health established within
the Department seven bureaus, as follows: Office of the Deputy
Director, including divisions of Local Health Services, Vital Records
and Statistics, Public Health Nursing, and Communicable Disease
Control; Bureau of Laboratories; Bureau of Preventive Medicine,
including divisions of Maternal and Child Health, Crippled Children
and Heart Disease Control, Dental Health, Venereal Disease Control,
Mental Hygiene and Alcohol Studies; Bureau of Tuberculosis; Bureau
of Medical Services and Hospitals, including divisions of Home
Medical Care, Hospital Services and Cancer Control; Bureau of
Environmental Hygiene, including divisions of Sanitary Engineering,
Industrial Health and Air Pollution, Food Control, Drug Control, and
Bedding and Upholstery; and a Bureau of Management. The Execu-