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112 MARYLAND MANUAL with the advice of the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene. He appoints two members biennially from a list of four practicing dentists furnished by the Maryland State Dental Association. The Dental Practice Act of the State provides that this Board regulate the practice of dentistry by testing the qualifications of candidates for licenses in dentistry and in dental hygiene. All applicants for licenses to practice dentistry must be at least twenty-one years of age and graduates of dental colleges duly incor- porated to grant degrees in Dental Surgery by the laws of one of the United States or Canada. All applicants for a license to practice dental hygiene must be graduates of a school for dental hygienists requiring at least two years of study and approved by the State Board of Dental Examiners. Examinations, held twice every year, are both written and practical. Every dentist and every dental hygienist must register annually (Code 1967, 1967 Kepi. Vol., and 1969 Supp., Art. 32). Appropriations 1969 1970 Special Funds ................................................... $16,783 $19,780 Staff: 1. COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PLANNING AGENCY Advisory Council Henry D. Blair, Jr. Chairman The Agency Chairman: Marvin Mandel, Governor Vice Chairman: William J. Peoples, M.D., M.P.H., Commissioner, State Department of Health Henry G. Bosz, Commissioner of Personnel Vladimir A. Wahbe, Secretary of State Planning; Neil Solomon, M.D., Ph.D. Secretary, State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Eugene H. Guthrie, M.D., M.P.H., Executive Director Frederick Nevins, Ph.D., Associate Executive Director 101 W. Read Street, Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 383-3010 The Maryland Comprehensive Health Planning Agency was created by Chapter 221, Acts of 1968 as the Maryland agency to administer the Comprehensive Health Planning and Public Health Services Amendments of 1966 (Public Law 89-749). The Agency is responsible for the development of a coordinated statewide system of comprehensive health planning, to pursue the goal of the highest level of physical and mental health in the most healthful environment for the citizens of Maryland. The Agency is particularly responsible for the coordination of planning for utiliza- tion of money, manpower and facilities in both the private and public sectors of the health industry of the State. The Agency sets forth policies and procedures which are designed to provident or comprehen- sive State planning for health services (public and private) including the facilities and persons required for the provision for such services, to meet the health needs of the State. The Agency also encourages cooperative efforts among governmental or non-governmental health, education, welfare, and rehabilitation agencies, organizations ana groups concerned with or affecting health services, facilities or manpower. The same Act created an Advisory Council on Comprehensive Health Planning. The thirty-five member Council consists of representa- |
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