DEPARTMENT OF POST MORTEM EXAMINERS
MARYLAND POSTMORTEM EXAMINERS COMMISSION

Chairman: Huntington Williams, M.D., Commissioner of

Health of Baltimore City

Vice-Chairman: Perry F. Prather, M.D., Director, State
Department of Health

Harlan I. Firminger, M.D., University of Maryland School of
Medicine; Colonel Elmer F. Munshower, Superintendent, Mary-
land State Police; Arnold R. Rich, M.D., Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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
Sybil Grainger, M.D„ Medical Investigator
Sydney S. Katz, M.D., Medical Investigator
Watson P. Kime, M.D., Medical Investigator
Robert Mazer, M.D„ Medical Investigator
John A. Mitchell, M.D., Medical Investigator
F. Lee Schmitz, Administrative Officer
Spencer R. Watts, Chemist

700 Fleet Street, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Plaza 2.2000

The Department of Postmortem Examiners, established in 1939, is
directed by 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 replaced the coroners of Baltimore City
by a Chief and two Assistant Medical Examiners, and the county
coroners by Deputy Medical Examiners. The Commission appoints
all personnel. The Department, or the Deputy Medical Examiners
assigned to it, investigate violent and suspicious deaths or deaths
unattended by a physician. They must file a report of all deaths
investigated 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 acceptable in Court as evidence of the facts
contained. The county pays the Deputy Medical Examiners for each
death investigated. The State Comptroller pays the salaries of the
Chief Medical Examiner, the Assistant Medical Examiners, and the
Toxicologist, and the expenses of performing autopsies in the counties
and the transportation of bodies incident thereto. All other expenses
of the Department are paid by the City of Baltimore (Code 1951,
Art. 22).

Appropriations 1967 1958

Special Funds ...........................$79,000 $79,000
Staff: 29. Deputy Medical Examiners, Substitutes, and

Pathologists: 96.

State Roads and Motor Vehicles

STATE ROADS COMMISSION

Chairman: Robert O. Bonnell
Edgar T. Bennett, John J. McMullen
Charles R. Pease, Secretary

Albert S. Gordon, Executive Assistant to the Chairman
Norman M. Pritchett, Chief Engineer