ONE TON OF ROSE SPRAY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 90, 12 August 1942, Page 2

ONE TON OF ROSE SPRAY

PROTECTS 1,000,000 PEOPLE FROM TYPHUS At a cost of only one-halfpenny a week people can keep their heads free from lice by usinii a specially prepared dressing. Especially valuable at a time when the deadly typhus germ, carried by the body louse, is advancing steadily across Nazi Europe, the new treatment is the work of two London entomologists, Professor P. A. Buxton and Dr. J. 11. Busvine, ol'i the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Prepared either as a brilliantine or a cream, and given an attractive scent, it is rubbed with the fingers into the roots of the hair. A single application will remain effective from seven to ten days. The suk r * stances use/'are either derris, a spray Avell-known to rose-growers; lauryl thiocvanate or lethane HS-l special. The new preparation, one ton of which will treat 1,0(10.000 people, is expected to be made available to the general public by pharmaceutical manufacturers, and also by local medical authorities, factories, schools and so on, in their welfare and clinical work. Women, whose longer hair makes them more liable to infection than men, will be grateful for the discovery, for previously they have had to endure a two-hour soaking of the head in paraffin, followed by a shampoo.