In Maryland. for example. there is Rosewood State Hospital. housing some 2.600 patients. When the director of Marylands State mental retardation administration assumed his post last year. he called Rosewood "one of the worse I have seen." He has also said: The impersonality of it. the lack of dignity. the homosexuality that I think nobody would denywe must do better. Unfortunately. like so many other aspects of our society which have failed and which are victimizing those who cannot protect themselvesthe prisons. our ghetto schools. our system of administering the Indian reservations. our migrant campspublic attention is short lived. A furor arises when some new revelation breaks into the news. but soon subsides as the news media turn to other stories. Yet the degradation and the despair continue.