A practice organized around personal hygiene behavior, such as handwashing, distinct from the infrastructure-level sanitation practices that support it. Belongs here: a personal hygiene promotion practice. Does not belong here: waste or water infrastructure itself, grouped under sanitation or water safety practices.
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1. Wikipedia: Ignaz Semmelweis
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In 1847, he proposed hand washing with chlorinated lime solutions at Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had thrice the mortality of midwives' wards.
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