Question

1847: wash your hands by marguerite vigliani, md; gale eaton ignatz semmelweis was appalled. the vienna hospital where he worked was world famous for its obstetrics department, 1 but women would rather give birth outside on the street. it was safer 2 inside, more of them died of childbed fever, especially if they were put in first clinic. the two maternity wards or clinics accepted patients on alternate days, but whenever their babies arrived, mothers begged to be put in second clinic. the death rate there was lower. 3 childbed (or puerperal) fever was a bacterial infection common in nineteenth - century hospitals and even after doctor - assisted home births. it tore through the reproductive systems and blood streams of women exhausted by childbirth. in america, oliver wendell holmes sr. announced what is the purpose of the graphic showing puerperal fever, yearly mortality rates? choose two responses. (1 point) ☐ to compare the mortality rates at the first clinic to the second clinic ☐ to show how many total people died of puerperal fever in the clinics ☐ to compare the mortality rates for puerperal fever to other diseases ☐ to show how the mortality rates at the two clinics changed over time ☐ to compare the mortality rates for puerperal fever in the past to today

Explanation:

1. Analyze each option:

• Option 1: The text mentions two clinics (First and Second) with different death rates, and a graph of yearly mortality rates could compare them. This is plausible.
• Option 2: The graph is about "yearly mortality rates", not total number of deaths, so this is incorrect.
• Option 3: The graph is only about puerperal fever, not comparing to other diseases, so incorrect.
• Option 4: Since it's a graph of "yearly mortality rates" over time (with time labels on the x - axis), it can show how the rates at the two clinics changed over time. This is correct.
• Option 5: The context is about 19th - century clinics, not comparing past to today, so incorrect.

Answer:

A. To compare the mortality rates at the First Clinic to the Second Clinic
D. To show how the mortality rates at the two clinics changed over time