throughout the State, tabulating and analyzing such reports and
preparing a monthly summary and analysis of all accidents Which
is published in cooperation with the Maryland Traffic Safety Com-
mission. A Traffic Staff has been organized within the Department
for the purpose of promoting traffic safety and traffic safety educa-
tional programs. The members of the staff speak before civic groups
and organizations and plan to build a library of motion pictures and
related visual aids to augment its works (Code 1955 supp., Art. 88B,
secs. 42-47A).

The Communication Bureau, established in 1936, provides radio
and teletype communication service with the various police barracks
throughout the State. It is a unit in a teletype network covering
fourteen States and the District of Columbia. The Bureau also pro-
vides radio communication service to the patrol boats of the Depart-
ment of Tidewater Fisheries. Through the communication service
the latest weather forecasts are transmitted to the local barracks
for dispatch to County Agricultural Agents: such reports are also
transmitted to the District headquarters of the State Roads Commis-
sion. The Department provides ambulance service to rural areas as
well as emergency service in the case of accidents. It maintains ten
ambulances throughout the State for this purpose. A Training School
is operated by the Department at Pikesville for the purpose of train-
ing recruits of the Maryland State Police; as well as the training
of other law enforcement officers of the State of Maryland. The work
of the Department is carried on through its local barracks located
throughout the State as follows:

Southern Maryland, Troop "A"
Waldorf Barrack
Waterloo Barrack

Western Maryland, Troop "B"
Frederick Barrack
Cumberland Barrack

Central Maryland, Troop "C"
Benson Barrack
Conowingo Barrack
Randallstown Barrack

Eastern Shore, Troop "D"
Easton Barrack
Salisbury Barrack
Appropriations 1955 1956

Special Fund ........................ $2,397,986 $2,642,127

Staff: 477.

DEPARTMENT OF POSTMORTEM EXAMINERS
MARYLAND POSTMORTEM EXAMINERS COMMISSION

Chairman: Robert H. Riley, M.D„ Director, State Depart-
ment of Health

Vice-Chairman: Hugh R. Spencer, M.D.,University of Mary-
land School of Medicine
Secretary: Huntington Williams, M.D„ Commissioner of

Health of Baltimore City
Arnold R. Rich, M.D„ Johns Hopkins Hospital
Colonel Elmer F. Munshower, Superintendent, Maryland

State Police