Agency history record, 1949-1961.

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. Board of Mental Hygiene

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Maryland. Department of Mental Hygiene. Board of Review.

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Created in 1949, the Department of Mental Hygiene, Board of Review, was composed of the Senate president or his representative, the House speaker or his representative, as well as nine other members appoointed by the governor (Laws of 1949, ch. 685, sec. 15f). The governor selected one member to chair the board, which met at least quarterly. Twice a year, board members visited "each State institution caring for or treating persons of unsound minds" to ascertain whether i...

Maryland. Department of Mental Hygiene

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Established in 1949, the Department of Mental Hygiene supervised, directed, and controlled all state institutions for the care or treatment of the mentally ill (Laws of 1949, ch. 685). The department assumed the duties of the Board of Mental Hygiene and institutional boards of managers, which were abolished. In addition to their control of mental health facilities, the department was empowered to license and inspect any institution, public or private, having custody of the mentally ...