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SWEDEN.
The British Consulate at Stockholm has favoured me with a copy of
Regulations in force in Sweden, of which the following is a translation:—
Instructions to prevent Infectious Skin Diseases being transmitted by Shaving.
1. Always use clean towels.
2. Lather without using a brush.
3. Disinfect the razor every time you have used it, by placing it for some
minutes in a solution of 5 parts of formalin and 1 part of soda in 100 parts of
water, or heating in a boiling soap-solution.
4. Carefully wash your hands before you shave a customer.
5. Use only clean cotton wool for applying powder, styptics, &c.
6. Do not shave people afflicted with diseases in their beards.
7. Assistants whose hands are not perfectly free from pimples, pustules or sores
must not be allowed to shave or lather.
8. Keep the shop always clean and tidy.
Stockholm, 26th May, 1899.
Board of Health.
See that the above instructions are strictly complied with.
SWITZERLAND.
Neither the Federal Government of Switzerland nor the Cantonal Governments
have issued Regulations relating to the hairdressing trade, but the three
towns of Lausanne, Veves and Rolle, in the Canton of Vand, have, however,
prescribed Regulations on the subject, as under:—
Lausanne.
1. Employees are enjoined to observe habits of cleanliness.
2. A fresh towel must be used for each customer. The head rest of the
chair must be covered for each customer with a fresh towel made either of linen
or paper.
3. Hair clippers, scissors, combs, and brushes must be regularly disinfected.
Razors must be disinfected before and after stropping.
4. Non-removable rolling brushes, powder puffs, alum crystals, and soap in
cakes are forbidden.
5. Special instructions will be issued by the Municipality on the advice of the
Commission of Healthy
A copy of this Regulation must be exhibited in a conspicuous place in each
barber's shop.
6. Contravention of these regulations is punishable by the Municipality.
The above came into lorce on the 1st day of October 1902.