Many of these projects have already been completed. Out-
standing among them is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, cross-
ing four miles of water and allowing clearance for craft
to a height of 187 feet. It was completed July 30, 1952, at a
cost of $45,000,000 and is the largest continuous over-water
steel structure in the world. Another remarkable engineer-
ing feat, the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, was opened to traffic
at midnight November 29, 1957. Built at a cost of $130,000,-
000, it is 6,300 feet long and has in all, sixteen miles of
approach expressways that enable the motorist to speed
rapidly through one of the most highly congested areas
of Baltimore.

Our national capital has been linked to nearby Maryland
cities by dual highways which lead to Baltimore via the
Baltimore-Washington Expressway, to Annapolis via the
John Hanson Highway and to Frederick via the Washing-
ton National Pike, one of the most beautiful highways in
the country. Moreover, the Capital Beltway, segments of
which are now in use, will be completed by the end of 1964.

The Blue Star Highway, extending from the Chesapeake
Bay Bridge to the Delaware line, has been in use since 1956.
Maryland's only toll road, the recently opened Northeastern
Expressway, runs from Baltimore to the Delaware line.
All of the Baltimore Beltway has now been opened to traffic
and the Jones Falls Expressway may be used from the
Beltway to mid-town Baltimore.

Spurred by a series of shocking revelations published in
one of Baltimore's leading newspapers in 1949, the General
Assembly established the Department of Mental Hygiene
and gave it full supervision over all matters pertaining to
the custody, care and treatment of persons of unsound mind.
Since then the State has spent millions of dollars erecting
new buildings and improving existing facilities. More im-
portant, there has been a change in concept which regards
such institutions as treatment centers rather than as deten-
tion areas. Patuxent Institution, an experiment in the use
of indeterminate sentences in the treatment of defective
delinquents, began operating in 1955. The Clifton T. Perkins
State Hospital, a 300-bed facility, costing nearly three mil-
lion dollars, began operating in 1960. It inaugurated in
Maryland a program of psychiatric therapies combined with
rehabilitative procedures for all adult male patients who
require maximum security.

At Rosewood State Hospital, the Esther Loring Richards
Children's Center opened in 1958 and the Jacob E. Fine-
singer Building opened in 1961 provide psychiatric treat-