CAUTION URGED

Evening Star, Issue 19781, 3 February 1928, Page 2

CAUTION URGED

ELECTRICAL AIDS TO BEAUTY A warning regarding the indiscriminate use of certain types of electrical apparatus which may apply generally lias been issued by Dr Knobel, a member of the London County Council’s Public Control Committee, who states that the risk of cancer developing as the result of the application of X-rays for the removal of superfluous hair renders the use of such apparatus for improving the appearance not only undesirable and unjustifiable, but an actual danger to the public. During the last few years the number of specialists in electrical treamcnt has grown beyond conception, and though in many cases the “specialist” may possess some knowledge of the fundamentals of electricity, others are completely ignorant of the apparatus they handle, save for its actual operation. • From the electrical industry’s point of view (declares an English exchange), the opening of these electrical beauty parlors should not be encouraged, except where the staff are familiar with the results of the apparatus they use. In the latter case all may he well, hut where ignorance prevails considerable harm can bo done in the direction of undermining that faith which the public is only just beginning to extend to electricity _ generally, and domestic appliances in particular. We have visited some of these beauty parlors in England (concludes the paper); we have seen their methods, their careless manner of joining up odd pieces of “flex”; and, candidly, wo don’t like them.