Western Maryland, Troop B
Frederick Barrack

Post I, Hagerstown
Cumberland Barrack

Central Maryland, Troop C
Benson Barrack
Conowingo Barrack
Randallstown Barrack

Eastern Shore, Troop D
Easton Barrack
Salisbury Barrack

Appropriations 1959 1960

Special Funds . $4,602,975 $5,082,168
Staff: 715.

DEPARTMENT OF POST-MORTEM EXAMINERS
Maryland Post-Mortem Examiners Commission

Chairman: Huntington Williams, M.D.,
Commissioner of Health of Baltimore City

Perry F. Prather, M.D., Director, State Department of Health;
Harlan 1. Firminger, M.D., University of Maryland School of
Medicine; Colonel Carey Jarman, Superintendent, Maryland State
Police; Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., M.D., Johns Hopkins Hospital

Russell S. Fisher, M.D., Chief Medical Examiner
William V. Lovitt, Jr., M.D„ Assistant Medical Examiner
Charles S. Petty, M.D., Assistant Medical Examiner
W. Bradley King, M.D., Assistant Medical Examiner
Henry C. Freimuth, Ph.D., Toxicologist
Robert V. Blanke, Ph.D., Assistant Toxicologist
Sybil Grainger, M.D., Medical Investigator
Watson P. Kime, M.D„ Medical Investigator
Peter Rieckert, M.D., Medical Investigator
Robert Mazer, M.D., Medical Investigator
F. Lee Schmitz, Administrative Officer
Martin L. Karst, Chemist

700 Fleet Street, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Plaza 2-2000

The Department of Post-Mortem Examiners, established in 1939 to
replace a decentralized system of local coroners, is directed by a com-
mission composed of a representative of the State Department of
Health, the Commissioner of Health of Baltimore City, the Superin-
tendent 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. In 1967 the General Assembly authorized
three Assistant Medical Examiners. The Commission appoints all per-
sonnel. The medical examiners, in the Department or in the counties,
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 accept-
able 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