The Anatomy Board is an ex-officio body composed of the heads of
the anatomy departments of the University of Maryland Medical
School and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and one
additional instructor of anatomy from each of the medical schools.
The purpose of the agency is to insure the fair distribution of bodies
to qualified medical schools. These bodies are of deceased persons
required to be buried at public expense. Such bodies are used only for
the promotion of medical science within the State of Maryland. If,
however, the body is claimed for burial by relatives, it is surrendered
for interment (Code 1951, Art. 43, secs. 166-159).

Appropriations 1955 1956
General Fund .................................... $1,500 $1,500
Staff: I

STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
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State Board of Health

Chairman: Robert H. Riley, M.D., Dr. P.H.

Huntington Williams, M.D., Dr. P.H.,
Commissioner of Health, Baltimore City
A. Austin Pearre, M.D., 1961; A. L. Penniman, Jr., C. E.,
1961; Lloyd N. Richardson, Phar.D., 1957; Ralph J. Young,
M.D., 1957; George M. Anderson, D.D.S., 1959; Maurice
. Pincoffs, M.D., 1959.

Robert H. Riley, M.D., Dr. P.H., Director (1)
Perry F. Prather, M.D., Deputy Director
V. L. Ellicott, M.D., Dr. P.H. 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 1951, 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, secs. 6-10, 45-52).

The State Board of Health has broad and inclusive powers over
health and hygiene matters of the State. These functions and respon-

(1) To retire December 31, 1955. Dr. Perry F. Prather, present Deputy
Director, will become Director.