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In 1846, whilst working in the Obstetrics department at Vienna General Hospital, Dr Ignaz Semmelweis was a disturbed man. He observed that 18% of mothers died from 'childbed fever' after childbirth in a clinic staffed by physicians and medical students. Surprisingly, it was 9 times higher than in another clinic in the same hospital, staffed exclusively by midwives (2%). Women preferred giving birth in the streets if they could not get admitted into the second clinic and avoid
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