... specially to direct their attention to the lessening of our infant mortality by instructing ignorant and careless mothers on the subject of infant hygiene, and especially the feading of infants. They are to report on the general sanitary state of the houses ...

... died, whereas Dundee had only 65 infant deaths. The EXCESSIVE INFANT MORTALITY IN ABERDEEN does not appear to have been caused by any unusual epidemic of children's maladies. The notable feature of the large total of infant deaths is the number due to premature ...