Medical and Technical Staff:

Russell S. Fisher, M.D.,Chief Medical Examiner
William V. Lovitt, Jr., M.D., Assistant Medical Examiner
Paul F. Guerin, M.D., Assistant Medical Examiner
Henry C. Freimuth, Ph.D., Toxicologist
Charles P. Crimy, M.D., Medical Investigator
Sydney Katz, M.D., Medical Investigator
Robert C. Sheppard, M.D„ Medical Investigator
Charles Wheeler, Jr., M.D., Medical Investigator
F. Lee Schmitz, Administrative Officer
Spencer R. Watts, Junior Chemist
John P. Haney, Technician, Pathological Laboratory

700 Fleet Street, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Plaza 2-2000

The executive direction of the Department of Postmortem Ex-
aminers is vested in a Commission composed of a representative of the
State Department of Health, the Commissioner of Health of Baltimore
City, the Superintendent of Maryland State Police, and the professors
of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of
Maryland. The Department, which was established in 1939, replaced
the coroners of Baltimore City by a Chief and two Assistant Medical
Examiners and the county coroners by Deputy Medical Examiners.
All personnel are appointed by the Commission. It is the duty of the
Department, or the Deputy Medical Examiners assigned to it, to
investigate violent and suspicious deaths or those unattended by a
physician. A report of all deaths investigated must be filed with the
office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The records of the Department
are open for inspection to the family of the deceased and are accept-
able in Court as evidence of the facts contained. The Deputy Medical
Examiners are paid by the county for each death investigated. The
salaries of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Assistant Medical Exam-
iners and the Toxicologist are paid by the State Comptroller. All
other expenses of the Department are paid by the City of Baltimore
(Code 1951, Art. 22).

Appropriations 1955 1956
Special Fund .................................. $49,000 $49,000
Staff: 27. Deputy Medical Examiners, Substitutes, and
Pathologists: 95.

STATE ROADS COMMISSION

Chairman: Russel H. McCain
Edgar T. Bennett, Bramwell Kelly
Charles R. Pease, Secretary
Albert S. Gordon, Executive Assistant to the Chairman
Norman M. Pritchett, Chief Engineer
William F. Childs, Jr., Advisory Engineer
Carl L. Wannen, Comptroller
Joseph D. Buscher, Special Assistant Attorney General

108 E. Lexington Street, Baltimore 3 Telephone: Lexington 9-4370

The State Roads Commission was established in 1908, succeeding to
the highway survey functions of the Maryland Geological and Eco-