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MARYLAND MANUAL 105 DEPARTMENT OF POST-MORTEM EXAMINERS Maryland Post-Mortem Examiners Commission Chairman: William J. Peeples, M.D. Commissioner, State Department of Health Robert E. Farber, M.D., Commissioner of Health of Baltimore City; Robert H. Heptinstall, M.D., Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Robert J. Lally, Superintendent of the Maryland State Police; Robert B. Schultz, M.D., Depart- ment of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine. Russell S. Fisher, M.D., Chief Medical Examiner Werner U. Spitz, M.D., Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Charles S. Springate, M.D., Assistant Medical Examiner Ronald N. Kornblum, M.D., Assistant Medical Examiner Isidore Mihalakis, M.D., Assistant Medical Examiner Henry C. Freimuth, Ph.D., Toxicologist Paul Schweda, Ph.D., Assistant Toxicologist John T. Miller, Ph.D., Immunochemist Dorothy Hartel, Senior Administrative Assistant 700 Fleet Street, Baltimore 21202 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 and an Assistant Toxicologist. In 1965 an additional Assistant Medical Exam- iner and an Immunochemist were added and in 1969 a Deputy Chief Medical Examiner and an additional Toxicologist were authorized The Commission appoints all personnel. The medical examiners investigate violent and suspicious deaths or deaths unattended by a physician throughout the State. They must file a report of all deaths investi- gated with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. 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 1967, 1966 Repl. Vol., Art. 22). Appropriations 1969 1970 Special Funds ................................................... $389,441 $390,696 Staff: 53. Deputy Medical Examiners, Substitutes and Pathologists: 96. STATE DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE SERVICES Advisory Board of Juvenile Services Chairman: George B. Rasin, Jr., 1972 Frederick J. Brown, 1970; William Lewis Holder, 1970; Ernest A. Loveless, Jr. 1970; Virginia Richardson, 1970; Lt. Col. Wilbour Conroy, 1971; Charles A. Harris, 1971; Robert 1. H. Hammerman, 1971; John L. Pitts, 1971; Richard Bateman, 1972; Mrs. John B. Funk, 1972; Donald E. Webster, 1972. |
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