Prof. Ludwig Mayer, chief advisor to the children’s section of the Hadassah Hospital in Tel Aviv, died here today at the age of 75 . Once director of the Berlin Children’s Hospital, the world famous pediatrician visited the United States in 1947 to lecture at various universities and medical schools.
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