Health and Mental Hygiene
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE

Chairman: Aaron Dietz, M.D., 1967
Vice Chairman: John G. Whitehom, M.D., 1965
J. Edmund Bradley, M.D., 1965; Harry W. Penn, Jr., 1965;
Russell P. Smith, Jr., D.D.S., 1965; Irene M. Duffy, R.N„
1967; Cornelius W. Kruse, Dr. P.H., 1967; Leo Bartemeier,
M.D., 1969; Walter Kirkman, 1969; Noel E. Foss, Phar.D.,
1969; J. Douglass Shepperd, M.D., 1969.

301 West Preston Street, Baltimore 1 Telephone: 837-9000

The policies of the Department of Mental Hygiene and the Depart-
ment of Health are governed by the State Board of Health and
Mental Hygiene which has broad and inclusive powers over both
health and mental hygiene. This Board, established by Chapter 841,
Acts of 1961, is composed of eleven members appointed by the Gov-
ernor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, for six-year terms.
Five of the members must be physicians, of whom two are psychi-
atrists. Of the remaining members, one must be a dentist and each
must be qualified in one of the following fields: hospital administra-
tion, public administration, nursing, pharmacy, radiation control, and
sanitary engineering. No Board member may serve more than two full
terms. The Board elects its own officers biennially. Under the terms
of the reorganization Act, the new Board replaces the State Board of
Health, the Mental Hygiene Advisory Board, and the Mental Hygiene
Board of Review (Code 1957, 1963 Supp., Art. 43, sec. IA-IG).

STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Perry F. Prather, M.D., Commissioner
Edward F. Davens, M.D., Deputy Commissioner
Clemens W. Gaines, Chief, Bureau of Management
John Whitridge, Jr., M.D., Chief, Bureau of Preventive

Medicine

Vacancy, Chief, Bureau of Laboratories
Leon H. Hetherington, M.D., Chief, Bureau of Tuberculosis
Robert M. Brown, M.P.H., Chief, Bureau of Environmental

V. L. Ellicott, M.D., Dr. P.H., Chief, Bureau of Medical
Services and Hospitals

301 W. Preston Street, Baltimore 1 Telephone: 837-9000

The State Department of Health, established by Chapter 200, Acts
of 1874, is governed by the State Board of Health and Mental
Hygiene. The Department is directed by a Commissioner, who is
appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of the State
Board of Health and Mental Hygiene. He must be an experienced
physician skilled in public health and certified by the American Board
of Preventive Medicine. He is responsible for organizing the Depart-
ment and carrying out its responsibilities and functions. The Depart-
ment serves the State through the Baltimore City Health Depart-
ment, and twenty-three county health departments, each of which is
in the charge of a health officer who serves as the Deputy State Health
Officer for his county.

The State Department of Health protects the public health through
the elimination of environmental hazards, the promotion of individual