DANGER OF DISEASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8142, 26 June 1906, Page 2

DANGER OF DISEASE.

NEW REGULATIONS FOE BARBERS. The " Wellington Post" states that the chief health officer (Dr. Mason) has recognised the danger of disease that lurks in barborß, boudoirs, and has issued circulars to his officers throughout the colony, setting out the stringent regulations adopted in Glasgow, after consultations between the Health Committee of the Town Council, the Hairdressers' Guild, and tho Glasgow and District Hairdressers' Association. The message runs: " The following regulations for the conduct of hairdressers' establishments in the city have been agreed to: All shelves, fittings, and tables on which instruments are placed to be of glass, marble, or other similar material, clean towels, et?., to be used for customers, and a fresh piece of paper or clean linen to be placed on the back of the chair or head rest; no ■sponges, towelettes, or combs to be used, unless disintected j razors to be wiped on paper; clean hair.brush.es only must be used; shaving brushes after use to be placed in a disinfecting solution; liquid or powdered soap or shaving cream only to be used; cut hair failing on the floor to be swept up and removed, and floors to be kept cleanly ; no general alum crystals or blocks to be used as a styptic, unless carefully washed, but liquid or powder applied on towel or cotton-wool, or by spray is to be preferred j the most scrupulous cleanliness to be observed in all that pertains to tho business. The following recommendations are also made: Regular customers and subscribers should bo strongly reoommended to provide their own toilet articles—razors, brushes, etc., which would be exclusively reserved for the owners use; all cut hair and paper to be burned j no customer apparently suffering from any skin or hair affection to be attended, save at his own home or office, or in a private room; charges should, if necossary, be remodelled to enable hairdressers, etc., not only to comply with the letter but the spirit of the above, without loss. Machine, or rotary brushes should be discouraged." Dr Mason has recoived letters from barbers approving the text of the promulgation, and the public would, no doubt like to seo tho suggestions put into universal practice. This important matter will be brought under the notice of the next Municipal Conference.