mission on Problems Affecting the Negro Population. The Commis-
sion is composed of nine members appointed by the Governor for a
term of six years with the advise and consent of the Senate. Of those
first appointed three shall serve for two years, three for four years,
and three for six years. The Chairman of the Commission is desig-
nated by the Governor. The Executive Secretary of the Commission
is appointed by the Governor for a term of two years. It is the duty
of the Commission to make surveys and studies of problems affecting
the Negro population of the State and the betterment of interracial
relations. The Commission shall submit an annual report to the
Governor and General Assembly together with recommendations, if
any, for any additional legislation (Code 1951, Art. 48A, sees. 1-3).

Appropriations 1953 1954
General Fund $8,000 $13,144

Staff: 2.

DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE

Clifton T. Perkins, M.D., Commissioner
Earl K. Holt, M.D., Assistant Commissioner
George F. Sutherland, M.D., Director of Division of Psy-
chiatric Education and Training
Richard Lindenberg, M.D., Director of Neuropathology and

Legal Medicine

Jacob Morgenstern, M.D., Director of Correctional Psychiatry
George W. Mason, R.N., Director of Nursing Education
Francis J. Sullivan, Chief, Division of Administration and

Finance

R. Kenneth Barnes, Jr., Director of Rehabilitation
Rhys E. Carter, Supervisor, Engineering and Maintenance
Milford F. Lackey, Director of Personnel
Norris N. Nichols, Supervisor, Farm Management
George E. Shipferling, Food Service Director
Grace E. Schwartz, Supervisor, Budgets and Accounts
Helen C. Tingley. Director of Public Relations
Henrietta DeWitt, Social Service Director
John F. Kuemmerle, Biostatistician
Robert W. Hansen, Director of Procurement

2218 N. Charles Street, Baltimore 18 Telephone: Hopkins 7-1371

The Department of Mental Hygiene was established by the General
Assembly of 1949. It is vested with full and plenary powers and
charged with the duties and functions of supervision of all matters
relating to the custody, cure and treatment of persons of unsound
mind; and with supervision and licensing of all institutions, public,
private or corporate, in which mental patients are detained. The
Department is directed by a Commissioner, appointed by the Governor
with the approval of the Mental Hygiene Advisory Board, who has
full power and authority to supervise, control and direct all State
institutions caring for and treating persons of unsound mind. There
are within the Department of Mental Hygiene two divisions, the
chiefs of which, together with all technical and professional personnel,
are appointed by the Commissioner with the approval of the Advisory
Board (Code 1951, Art. 59, sees. 15a, 15b, 17, 18).