Appropriations 1959 1960

General Funds $125,522 $ 83,693
Special Funds $186,669 $260,966

Totals $312,081 $384,658
Staff: 66.

Mental Hygiene

DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE
Mental Hygiene Advisory Board

Chairman: John C. Whitehorn, M.D.
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Jacob Finesinger, M D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of
Maryland; Ernest L. Stebbins, Ph.D., Director, School of Mental
Hygiene, The Johns Hopkins University; Thomas J. S. Waxter,
Director, State Department of Public Welfare; Geneva Ely Flick-
inger, Supervisor, Special Education, State Department of Edu-
cation.

Isadore Tuerk, M.D., Acting Commissioner
Rudolph J. Depner, M.D., 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

Vacancy—Director of Hospital Inspection and Licensure
Richard Lindenberg, M.D., Director of Neuropathology and

Legal Medicine

Jacob Morgensterrn, M.D., Director of Correctional Psychiatry
Joseph J. Reidy, M.D., Director of Child Psychiatry
George W. Mason, R.N., Director of Nursing
Henrietta B. DeWitt, Director of Social Services
Ben W. Barker, Director of Rehabilitation
Joseph H. Murray, Director of Personnel
Helen C. Tingley, Director of Public "Relations
Kurt Gorwitz, M.S., M.P.A., Biostatistician
Walter 1. Redmond, Supervisor of Engineering and Maintenance
Norris N. Nichols, Supervisor of Farm Management
Frank H. Longfellow, Director of Food Service
William P. Blackburn, Director of Procurement

301 W. Preston Street, Baltimore I Telephone; Vernon 7-9000

The Department of Mental Hygiene was established by the General
Assembly of 1949 to supersede the Board of Mental Hygiene. This
Board, created in 1922 as part of a reorganization of the Executive
Branch, had carried on and expanded the functions of the State
Lunacy Commission, established in 1886, to inspect public and private
institutions for the insane and advise their Boards of Managers. The
law of 1949 abolished not only the Board of Mental Hygiene but also
the separate governing boards of the State mental hospitals and gave
to the new department full and plenary powers over, and supervision
of, all matters relating to the custody, care, and treatment of persons
of unsound mind. The Department supervises and licenses all institu-