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Maryland Manual, 1969-70
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88 MARYLAND MANUAL
The first phase in the construction of a major new facility
for the mentally retarded, tentatively named the Maryland
Metropolitan Washington Retardation Center, is being built
on a 100-acre plot near Beltsville at a cost of over four
million dollars. It will be the State's first regional center
for the mentally retarded.
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.
The Maryland Psychiatric Research Center was opened
on October 1, 1968 in a new building constructed on the
grounds of the Spring Grove State Hospital. Its purpose is
to serve as a center and hospital for psychiatric research
and to coordinate research activities at the various State
mental hospitals with those of private research organiza-
tions. It also offers training in research to graduate and post-
graduate students in psychiatry and behavioral sciences.
Juvenile Services
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 success of Green Ridge led
to the opening of four other camps, all located in Western
Maryland. In addition, the Department established the
Maryland Children's Center in Baltimore County near
Arbutus in 1959, and the Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's
Center in Anne Arundel County, near Laurel in 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 recom-
mendations. On July 1, 1967, the newly-created State De-
partment of Juvenile Services assumed responsibility for

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