Robert E. Farber, M.D., Commissioner of Health of Balti-
more City; Harlan S. Firminger, M.D., University of Mary-
land School of Medicine; Colonel Carey Jarman, Superin-
tendent, Maryland State Police; Perry F. Prather, M.D.,
Commissioner, State Department of Health.
Russell S. Fisher, M.D., Chief Medical Examiner
Charles S. Petty, M.D., Assistant Medical Examiner
Rudiger Breitenecker, M.D., Assistant Medical Examiner
John E. Adams, M.D., Assistant Medical Examiner
Henry C. Freimuth, Ph.D., Toxicologist
Paul S. Schweda, Ph.D., Assistant Toxicologist
Peter Rieckert, M.D., Medical Investigator
Charles Linthicum, M.D., Medical Investigator
Graciano Cendana, M.D., Medical Investigator
W. Bradley King, M.D., Medical Investigator
F. Lee Schmitz, Senior Administrative Assistant
Dorothy Hartel, Administrative Secretary

700 Fleet Street, Baltimore 2 Telephone: 762-2000

The Department of Post-Mortem Examiners created by Chapter
369, Acts of 1939 to replace a decentralized system of local coroners,
is directed by a commission composed of a representative of the
State Department of Health, the Commissioner of Health of Balti-
more 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. In 1957 the Gen-
eral Assembly authorized three Assistant Medical Examiners. The
Commission appoints all personnel. 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 Ex-
aminer. 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 Toxicologists, 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
1957, Art. 22).

Appropriations 1963 1964

Special Funds $182,420 $210,050
Staff: 38. Deputy Medical Examiners, Substitutes and
Pathologists: 96.

State Roads and Motor Vehicles

STATE ROADS COMMISSION

The Commission
Chairman: John B. Funk

Paul J. Bailey, 1964; Harley P. Brinsfield, 1964; William B.
Owings, 1964; Lansdale G. Clagett, 1965; Leslie H. Evans
1965; John J. McMullen, 1965.