The Hospital, founded originally for the purpose of providing
hospital facilities to miners and their families, today serves as a
general hospital for the residents of Frostburg and vicinity. The
capacity of the hospital is 51 beds. During the fiscal year 1951, the
hospital served a total of 1,675 patients.

Expenditures Appropriations

1950 1951
General funds $ 59,973.06 $ 63,407.00
Special funds 55,724.64 55,000.00

$115,697.70 $118,407.00
Staff: 37.

STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE
Board of Public Welfare

Chairman: W. Thomas Kemp, Jr., 1953

Lee L. Dopkin, 1953; Frank C. Marino, M.D., 1953; James
M. Hepbron, 1955; Henry C. Evans, 1955; Howard H. Mur-
phy, 1955; Mrs. Albert F. Metzger, 1957; Albert A. Shuger,
1957; Sanford V. Larkey, M.D., 1957.
J. Milton Patterson, Director

Elizabeth G. Smith, Assistant to the Director
120 W. Redwood Street, Baltimore 1 Telephone: Lexington 0050

The State Department of Public Welfare is the central, coordinat-
ing and directing agency of all welfare activities in the State, includ-
ing aid to dependent children, old age assistance, public assistance to
the needy blind, aid to the permanently and totally disabled, child
welfare services and any other welfare activities, financed in whole
or in part by the State or Federal government (Acts 1951, Ch. 82).
The Governor is authorized to designate the Chairman of the Board,
and to arrange the terms of the members so that they will hold office
for staggered terms of six years, the terms of three members expiring
on June 1st of every second year (Acts 1949, Ch. 12).

In each county there is a County Welfare Board, constituting an
administrative department of the local government, with authority to
administer under the supervision, direction and control of the State
Department, the welfare activities within each county, including the
care of neglected, dependent and delinquent children (Acts 1951, Ch.
82). Each County Board consists of six persons, who are appointed
for six-year terms by the Board of County Commissioners. Each year
the County Commissioners designate one of their members to serve on
the Welfare Board (Code 1947 Supp., Art. 88A, sec. 13).

The duties of the Department include the investigation of the sys-
tem of public and private institutions, organizations and agencies of
a charitable nature in the State, including those which receive part
of their income from the State, except those placed by law under the
supervision of another State agency Prior to the convening of each
regular session of the General Assembly, the Director furnishes to the
Governor a report which includes activities of the Department, the
conditions of all charitable institutions, organizations, and agencies,
excepting hospitals, receiving financial aid from the State, and recom-
mendations as to appropriations (Acts 1961, Ch. 82). All monies