With this initiative, he has proven the contagious nature of childbed fever.

通过这一举措，他证明了传染性。

So you say women who have inflammation also come down with childbed fever, therefore the inflammation caused the fever.

所以你说有女人也得了，所以引起了发烧。

Holmes noticed a pattern: when a patient dies of childbed fever, a doctor performs an autopsy.

福尔摩斯注意到一个模式：当一个病人死时，医生会进行尸检。

It's 1843, and a debate is raging among physicians about one of the most common killers of women: childbed fever.

现在是 1843 年，医生们正在激烈争论女性最常见杀手之一：。

Childbed fever strikes within days of giving birth, killing more than 70% of those infected— and nobody knows what causes it.

会在分娩后几天内发作，导致 70% 以上感染者死亡——而且没人知道是什么原因引起。

Having observed abdominal inflammation in patients who go on to develop the fever, he claims this inflammation is the cause of childbed fever.

在观察到继续发烧患者腹部后，他声称这种是原因。

But the midwife was attending a sick woman in the village, infected Katiousha with puerperal fever, and the child, a boy, was taken to a foundling asylum where, she was told, he died immediately after his arrival there.

但是助士在村里照顾一位生病妇女，她把传染给了卡秋沙，这个男孩是个男孩，被带到一家弃儿收容所，她被告知，他到达那里后立即死亡。