BARBERS’ SHOPS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1926, Page 1

BARBERS’ SHOPS.

RK G C RATIONS G A ZETTED • ■WELLINGTON, May 13. Regulations under the Health Act for the control of hairdressers’ shops are Gazetted. They provide for the registration of shops, the cleanliness of premises, furniture, and appliances. Other proviions in. the interests of tlio public nro: “Every perou who commits an offence, who knowingly employs in any hairdressers’ shop any person who is suffering from a communicable disease, acts as a hairdresser. “Every person who carries on the trade as a hairdresser, and every person employed by him as such, commits an offence if he fails to carry out any of the following directions for the protection of his customers from infection by any communicable diseases: (a) he shall cause all brushes, combs, hairdusters. scissors, clippers, gowns, and like articles to he kept- at all times in a scrupulously clean condition ; (b) shall not use in the service of any person any razor, shaving bush, or shaving mug, unless such razor, shaving brush, or shaving mug has been cleaned in boiling water, or sterilised in a disinfectant solution, subsequent to having boon used in the service of any other person; (c) shall not use on any person, any towel or wash-cloth which has not been cleansed in boiling water since having been used in the service of any other person ; (d) shall ensure that his hands and clothing are: clean before beginning to perform the services of a barber on any person ; (e) shall not apply to the skin of any person any lather, or any sponge, or cotton, wool, or powder puff, which has already been applied to the skin of any other person, and he sbnll not apply any styptic pencil or crystal to the skin of any person, unless such pencil or crystal has been clipped in boiling water immediately prior to such application-, (f) shall sterilise by boiling for twenty minutes or by immersion for thirty mi miles in a solution of formaldehyde tone part of formalin and sixteen parts of waterf, any brush and any mug which has been used in the process of shaving or suppurating, and shall disinfect by immersion either in boiling water, or in a disinfectant solution approved by the medical officer of health, any razor, clippers, scissors, or other sharp instrument, which has been applied to an inflamed or suppurating surface.