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In the 1900s someone noticed that people who had babies delivered by midwives rather than doctors survived on a ward and the ones who had the babies delivered by doctors did. they died of a certain disease and this man discovered that the doctors had been in the morgue and hadn't washed his hands and the midwives were always washing their hands and he linked the pair together

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