Excerpt from Scottish Mothers and Children: Being Report on the Physical Welfare of Mothers and Children; Scotland It is hoped that the Reports in question may be the means of assisting the solution of the various difficult questions involved by setting out the facts in relation to one another and by placing at disposal the views of accepted medical authorities on the subject. The Trustees have decided to publish the Reports forthwith, and before they have had an adequate opportunity for deciding what steps, if any, might be taken by them in connection with the prob lem. The Trustees do not commit themselves to the lines of policy or to the recommendations which have been submitted for their consideration other than those on which they have indicated publicly their intentions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.