Austria, 1847 & hospital anti-septic use

Back in 1847, Dr. Sammelweis of Austria showed that his gov university hospital had
a drop of 90% mortality rates by requiring all his doctors at the gov university hospital in Austria to use antiseptics before surgery/delivery while other private doctors/hospitals in the rest of the world had 10x the death rates for surgery/delivering babies & scoffed at the idea of using antiseptics --they would do autopsies, examine diseased patients, then go directly to surgery/delivering babies without washing in antiseptics --why? Because it was a gov doc/hospital & they refused to believe despite  empirical evidence of 90% lower death rates from antiseptic use.


It took them 30 yrs(and thousands of deaths later) before the rest of the mostly private medical community accepted the use of antiseptics