Agency history record, 1886-1922.

Spring Grove State Hospital (Catonsville, Md.)

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The Maryland Hospital for the Insane was renamed as Spring Grove State Hospital in 1912 when funds were approriated for additional hospital buildings (Laws of 1912, ch. 187). While the hospital continued unchanged for several years, World War I affected Spring Grove in diverse ways. First, construction of a major medical building (the Psychopathic Building) wa delayed by the demands of a wartime economy. Then, in 1918, the U.S. Veterans' Bureau, recognizing the impending need for a ...

Maryland. State Board of Prison Control

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Consisting of three paid members appointed by the governor, the State Board of Prison Control was established in 1916 to consolidate state authority over Maryland's penal system. The 1916 legislation abolished the managerial boards of the Maryland Penitentiary and the Maryland House of Correction, vesting the new board with "full power, authority and responsibility to manage and control the [two] institutions" (Laws of 1916, ch. 556). The Board of Prison Control was conc...

Maryland Penitentiary. Board of Directors

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The Board of Directors for the Maryland Penitentiary in 1817 assumed the duties of the former Inspectors of the Penitentiary, and administered the prison from that year until 1916 (Laws of 1817, ch. 72). Originally composed of twelve members appointed by the Governor and Council with the governor as an ex-officio member, the board was required to meet at the penitentiary once every quarter. Although the daily Penitentiary operation was the responsibility of the "keeper" (i.e., warde...

Maryland. Board of Mental Hygiene

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Maryland House of Correction. Board of Managers.

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Maryland. State Lunacy Commission.

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The Lunacy Commission was created to supervise "all institutions, public, corporate or private, in which insane persons are detained" (Laws of 1886, ch. 487). Appointed by the governor, the commission consisted of the attorney general and four others, two of whom were required to be physicians. None of the members could have "any pecuniary interest" in institutions under the commission's supervision, and none by the secretary was compensated. The commission's primary con...