Friday 4 May 2012

Hygiene drive leads to health miracle - THe NHS CleanYourHands campaign

Hygiene drive leads to health miracle:
The life saving benefits of soap were first recognised by Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, who discovered in 1847 that hand-washing by obstetricians and midwives could prevent puerperal fever, an infection following childbirth that killed up to a third of women in European hospitals in the mid-19th century.  The Independent

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