Best broadcasts of 1939-40 (1940)

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BEST BROADCASTS OF 1939-40 Semmelweiss. — You almost talk like a scientist, Herr Doktor Klein. Klein. — Semmelweiss, for a long time I have been thinking of discharging you for your stupidity and insults. Semmelweiss. — That will eliminate Semmelweiss, not childbed fever. My appointment here ends a year from now. Let me prove to you in that year that my hypothesis is correct. Whatever our personal difficulties, you are a scientist, Klein. Let me experiment. Let me wash the hands of your staff in clinic No. 1. Music . — A gitato . Narrator. — And Semmelweiss did wash their hands clean of death. The next morning all the doctors in clinic No. 1 were assembled before him. Sound. — Ad libs of internes. Music. — Out. Semmelweiss. — Mein Herr Doktors, these are the orders. I want the delivery room spotless: clean sheets, sterile clothing, sterile sponges, antiseptic instruments. And clean your hands! Soap and water alone may not remove the poison. Soak your hands in a solution of chloride of lime! That will be all. {Ad libs) Music. — Up and down behind. Narrator. — And that was all. The simplest clues sometimes help solve the most baffling mysteries. In only 3 weeks Dr. Sem¬ melweiss reported . . . Semmelweiss. — The mortality rate from childbed fever dropped from 1 1.3 per cent to only 3 per cent. Narrator. — And in one year, he reported . . . Semmelweiss. — Mortality rate dropped from 3 per cent to the all-time low of the Vienna Lying-in Hospital, only a little over 1 per cent. Narrator. — And in that same year, Herr Dr. Klein reported Music. — Out abruptly. 270