Baltimore County Council, 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. It collects, studies, and publishes communicable
disease data; makes laboratory analyses of water, sewage, trade
wastes, milk products, food, drugs, and other materials that may be
responsible for the transmission of infectious diseases; examines
and supervises public and private water supplies, sewage disposal,
ventilation, and heat and lighting in public institutions and controls
nuisances; registers, tabulates, and publishes vital statistics (in-
cluding birth, death, and marriage records); studies the causes of
death and illness among mothers and young children and provides
services for mothers and children; administers a medical care pro-
gram for indigent and medically indigent residents of Maryland's
counties; operates the hospitals placed under the Board's jurisdic-
tion; investigates complaints made by physicians or affected citi-
zens; licenses midwives; and makes laboratory tests of food and
drug specimens to assure compliance with laws prohibiting adultera-
tion and misbranding, and prosecutes violators (Code 1951, Art. 43,
sec. 32.44).

To carry out these duties the Board of Health has established
within the Department seven bureaus as follows: Office of the Deputy
Director, including divisions of Local Health Services, Vital Records
and Statistics, Public Health Nursing, Epidemiology, and Communi-
cable Disease Control; Bureau of Laboratories; Bureau of Preven-
tive Medicine, including divisions of Maternal and Child Health,
Crippled Children and Heart Disease Control, Dental Health, Can-
cer Control, Mental Hygiene, and Alcohol Studies; Bureau of Tu-
berculosis; Bureau of Medical Services and Hospitals, including di-
visions of Chronic Illness Hospitals, Home Medical Care, and Hos-
pital Services; Bureau of Environmental Hygiene, including divi-
sions of Sanitary Engineering, Industrial Health and Air Pollution,
Food Control, Drug Control, Bedding and Upholstery, and a Home
Accident Prevention Unit; and a Bureau of Management. The Ex-
ecutive Office consists of an advisor, a consultant in Public Health
Administration, a public relations assistant, and an administrative
assistant.

TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITALS

Victor F. Cullen State Hospital

Thomas F. Vestal, M.D., Superintendent

Cullen (Frederick County) Telephone: Highfield 301

This institution, established in 1908, was formerly known as the
State Sanatorium, but in 1949 the Board of Public Works changed
the name. The hospital provides for the care of 129 patients in all
stages of tuberculosis.
Staff: 167.

Henryton State Hospital
Edgars M. Maculans, M.D., Superintendent
Sykesville (Carroll County) Telephone: Sykesville 175

This hospital was established in 1923. It provides for the care of
425 patients in all stages of tuberculosis.

Staff: 280.