THE CLIFTON T. PERKINS STATE HOSPITAL
Jacob Morgenstern, M.D., Superintendent
Jessups (Howard County) Telephone: Waterloo 1654

The Clifton T. Perkins State Hospital, Maryland's newest psychi-
atric facility, was established by Chapter 814, Acts of 1959, as Maxi-
mum Security Hospital. It adopted its present name in 196O. Designed
to provide active treatment programs within a setting of maximum
security, the hospital is located midway between Baltimore and Wash-
ington.

The hospital receives patients who are referred by the courts of
Maryland for pre-trial psychiatric evaluation and provides a residen-
tial service for individual offenders who have been found to be "not
guilty by reason of insanity," as well as hospitalization for inmates
of penal institutions who become mentally ill and require such hos-
pitalization. In addition, the hospital accepts transfer patients whose
illness requires maximum security treatment for a period of time. The
hospital is designed for a maximum capacity of 300, and since its
opening in January 1960, it has gradually reached a population of
approximately 170 in April 1961 (Code 1957, Art. 59, sees. 19A, 19B).

Appropriations 1961 1962

General Funds. $776,906 $880,054
Staff, 1961: 192. Staff, 1962: 214.

ROSEWOOD STATE TRAINING SCHOOL
Thurman Mott, Jr., M.D., Acting Superintendent
Owings Mills (Baltimore County) Telephone: Hunter 6-5200

Rosewood State Training School, established by Chapter 183, Acts
of 1888 as the Asylum ana Training School for the Feeble Minded of
the State of Maryland, admitted its first children in 1889. It adopted its
present name in 1912. The School provides for the care, education,
training, and rehabilitation of mentally retarded children from all
parts of the State.

Rosewood State Training School has been augmented by the open-
ing of the Jacob E. Finesinger Building in 1961. This facility provides
care and treatment for forty to sixty pre-adolescent children who
suffer from psychotic and neurotic illnesses that require long term
treatment.

Esther Loring Richards Children's Center
Joseph J. Reidy, M.D., Director

The Esther Loring Richards Children's Center, which opened in
1958, provides active, intensive, in-patient psychiatric treatment for
children with serious emotional illnesses. Children who can be returned
to their community after a relatively brief period of hospitalization
are admitted up to their fourteenth birth date.

The basic differences between the pathology of the mentally re-
tarded and that of the emotionally disturbed make necessary separate
clinical programs and budgets. Nevertheless, the Center is part of
Rosewood and its population, appropriations, and staff are included in
the figures given below.

The budget for Rosewood is predicated upon a population of 2375
for the fiscal year 1961 and 2450 for 1962.