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 1961, Art. 48A, secs. 1-3).

Appropriations 1955 1956
General Fund ............................ $10,620 $11,472
Staff: 2.

DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE

Clifton T. Perkins, M.D., Commissioner

Vacancy: Assistant Commissioner
George F. Sutherland, M.D„ Chief, Division of Psychiatric

Education and Training
Francis J. Sullivan, Chief, Division of Administration and

Finance

Grace E. Schwartz, Supervisor, Budgets and Accounts
Rudolph J. Depner, M.D., Director of Hospital Inspection

and Licensure
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
Henrietta B. DeWitt, Director of Social Services
Ben W. Barker, Director of Rehabilitation

Vacancy: Director of Personnel
Helen C. Tingley, Director of Public Relations
David B. Hoover, Biostatistician

Walter I. Redmond, Supervisor of Engineering and Mainte-
nance

Norris N. Nichols, Supervisor of Farm Management
George E. Shipferling, Director of Food Service
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, secs. 16a, 16b, 17, 18).

Division of Psychiatric Education and Training

It is the function of the Division of Psychiatric Education and
Training to advise, consult with and direct the staffs of the several
State institutions concerning psychiatric services, nursing, rehabilita-
tion and social work.