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MARYLAND MANUAL 33
as custodial areas. Increasing emphasis is being placed on
research in this field.
At Rosewood State Hospital, the Esther Loring Richards
and the Jacob E. Finesinger Children's Centers were opened
in 1958 and 1961, respectively, to provide psychiatric treat-
ment for children with serious emotional, psychiatric and
neurotic illnesses as distinct from those who are mentally
retarded.
The Clifton T. Perkins State Hospital, a 300-bed facility,
costing nearly three million dollars, began operating in 1960.
It inaugurated in Maryland a program of psychiatric thera-
pies combined with rehabilitative procedures for all adult
male patients who require maximum security.
Patuxent Institution, now an autonomous agency, began
operating under the Department of Correction in 1955, as
an experiment in the use of indeterminate sentences in the
treatment of defective delinquents.
Medical facilities have also been expanded in recent years.
Three chronic disease hospitals have been constructed:
Deer's Head State Hospital in Wicomico County (1950),
Montebello State Hospital in Baltimore City (1953), and
Western Maryland State Hospital in Washington County
(1957). Pine Bluff State Hospital (taken over by the State
in 1928) is used for the treatment of tuberculosis. A 300-bed
addition to Mt. Wilson State Hospital in Baltimore County
has more than doubled its capacity for persons afflicted by
tuberculosis and other airway-obstructive diseases.
In 1955, the Department of Public Welfare started an
experiment in the rehabilitation of delinquent youth. In
cooperation with the Department of Forests and Parks, it
opened a forestry camp at Green Ridge near Flintstone to
which boys could be sent from the Training Schools to work
on conservation projects. The apparent success of Green
Ridge led to the opening of a second camp near Lonaconing
in 1957 and a third at Meadow Mountain near Grantsville
in 1958. A fourth camp is now occupying temporary quar-
ters at the old Cullen State Hospital, while new buildings
are being constructed at Backbone Mountain. In addition,
the Department has established the Maryland Children's
Center in Baltimore County near Arbutus (1959), and the
Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's Center in Anne Arundel
County near Laurel (1963). Children adjudged delinquent
by the courts are sent to one or the other of the Centers to
be studied for not more than thirty days and then returned
to the courts With recommendations.

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