care of indigent, chronic disease patients of the State. The average
population of the hospital is 85.
Expenditures Appropriation

1950 1951
General funds $406,503.65 $480,068.00
Special funds 2,262.07

$408,765.72 $430,068.00
Staff: 80.

DEER'S HEAD STATE HOSPITAL
J. A. McCallum, M.D., Superintendent

Salisbury (Wicomico County) Telephone: Salisbury 22164

Deer's Head State Hospital is the first unit of three to be construct-
ed for the care of indigent chronic disease patients in Maryland. It
is operated under the supervision of the Division of Hospital Con-
struction and Administration and the Bureau of Medical Services
and Hospitals of the Department of Health. The capacity of the
hospital is 300.
Expenditures Appropriation

1950 1951
General funds $180,089.81 $400,499.00
Special funds 880.44

$180,970.25 $400,499.00
Staff (authorized): 140.

COUNCIL OF MEDICAL CARE

J. T. Marsh, M.D., Page Jett, M.D., the Medical and
Chirurgical Faculty; R. H. Riley, M.D., Director of the State
Department of Health; J. W. Bird, M.D., State Board of
Health; Alan M. Chesney, M.D., The Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity School of Medicine; John E. Savage, M.D., The Uni-
versity of Maryland School of Medicine; Edwin L. Crosby,
M.D., Maryland-D. C. Hospital Association; J. Milton Patter-
son, State Department of Public Welfare; F. Noel Smith,
D.D S., Maryland State Dental Association; Martha Johnson,
R.N., Maryland State Nurses Association; Clifton T. Perkins,
M.D., Commissioner of Mental Hygiene; Walter E. Albrecht,
Maryland Pharmaceutical Association; Douglass Shepperd,
M.D., Maryland Medical Association; Leon H. Hethering-
ton, M.D., Maryland Tuberculosis Hospitals.

The Council on Medical Care is composed of fourteen members
chosen as follows: two appointed by the Medical and Chirurgical Fac-
ulty, two appointed by the State Board of Health, one of whom is a
representative of the State Department of Health; one member each
from the faculties of the medical schools of the University of Mary-
land and The John Hopkins University, named by the governing body
of the respective medical schools; one Maryland hospital administrator
named by the Maryland-District, of Columbia Hospital Association;
one member of the State Dental Association as named by its gov-
erning" body; one nurse appointed by the Directors of the State
Nurses Association, one member appointed by the executive board
of the Maryland Medical Association; one member appointed by the
governing body of the Maryland Pharmaceutical Association, the
Commissioner of Mental Hygiene, the Director of the State Depart-
ment of Welfare, and the Superintendent of the State Tuberculosis