Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-09-29

respect 10 tnolC O0St uClllCy.
! Greatly needed legislation passed
governing the sale and ingredients af
Fertilizers.
Dairy and animal husbandry farm.
with dairy manufacturing laboratory
provided.
! Southern Maryland Immigration.
Commission.
Roads And Bridges.
At the close of this administration
FOG miles of new roads will have been
.built,s bringing Maryland's road milei
age from 1876 miles to 1852 miles,
This constitutes 10 pers scent. of the
total road mileage of the State, and no
other State has cas- much as per.
cent. completed. BY the close Of this
year the primary and secondary sys'
TENS as laid down by the Federal Aid
act will have been entirely completed.
The road system has been efficiently
maintained and the laying of concrete
shoulders introduced. Sixty miles of
these have been laid, increasing the
width from IA to 20 feet and assuring
protection to the roadbed.
The new Severn River bridge will
be shortly completed, the Susquehanna
River bridge has been taken over and
~ one-way bridges on main lines have
been reconstructed 80 as to carry
three lines of traffic.
since.
Snow plows have been introduced,
with the result that every State road
rs kept in condition for travel every
day Of the year and practically $780,
900 year is saved in spring repair
work.
!. Prior to this administration there
were no direction and distance signs.
Now every State highway is marked
with them.
!; Maintenance deficit, $1,E9 ,555.07,
due to inadequate maintenance appro-
!priations in former, years and to
changing fiscal year, wiped out
Through gasoline tax.
! Roads marked with white bands at
grades and curves: >culverts and OBJ.
lstructions whitewashed; camp sites
established. y
j The 100000 Robert Grain High.
way, designed to make Baltimore In.
stead of Washington the trade center
for Southern Maryland, has been pro-
Nided for and construction begun.
+: Department. OF Welfare.
!. PENAL INsTITUTIoNs-
+ The reorganization OF the Peniten.
tiary and the House Of Correction has
been complete.
Both institutions have been COM
bined under one warden. This makes
them mutually supporting. the farm
ht the Hose Of Correction supplying
both prisoIa and the Penitentiary furn'
fishing skilled labor when needed at
the House of Correction. The trans.
fer of prisoners is now possible on q
selective basis.
The State-use system has been inau
gurated, embracing a shoe shop which
makes all shoes for the inmates OF
State institutions; a printing shop for
State departments; furniture fac
tory and an automobile tag factory
which is making the tags for this
State and will be able to take orders
from elsewhere.
A committee Of the leading physic
ians Of Maryland has prescribed and
approved the diet at both institutions
and the same committee has re-organ'
lied the medical supervision and hos
pital treatment. with consultant spe.
cialists, trained nurses and social serv
ice workers.
| z. INSTITUTIONS FOR THE INSAND-
Building for criminal insane con
structed at Spring Grove; new infirh
airy at Rosewood; epileptic colony al
Springfield: new building for coloret
insane at Brownsville.
+: Transfer by January l., 1924, Of al
tinsane patients approximately 250)
from Bay View to State hospitals.
Training schools for nurses inaug
urated at Springfield and Spring Grove
| Mental hygiene clinics established
for preventive purposes by free treat
;ment of incipient mental cases..
Workmen's Compensation And Mines
/; The Workmen's Compensation Law
was redrafted and liberalized by tn
Legislature in 1920 as an administra
tive measure, two Of the most impor
tant changes being substantial in
crease in the allowances and reduc
ton of the waiting period from tw'
weeks to three days. In 1919 4,27
claims were filed with the commission
In 1922 there were filed 1890 claims
| The Mining Code was adopted as al
{ administrative measure by the Legis
;lature Of 1922. This code gives Mary
land miners the benefit of the mos
modern and humane laws as to healtl
and safety, and ends 20-year contro
versy between operators and miners
Schools in mining organized at Bar
ton, Cumberland and Frostburg.
University OF Maryland.
Creation by Legislature of 1920 o