NEW DRESSING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1942, Page 4

NEW DRESSING

PROTECTION AGAINST VERMIN. AND TYPHUS INFECTION. At a cost of only one-halfpenny a week people can keep their heads free from lice by using 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. R. Busvine, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Prepared either as a brilliantine oi 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 substances used are either derris, a spray wellknown to rose-growers; lauryl thiocyanate or lethane 384 special. The now preparation, one ton of which will treat 1,000,000 people, is expected to be made available to the general public by pharmaceUvica 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. 1