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The following are the instructions issued by the Municipality of Lausanne
referred to above:—
Instructions for Hairdressers in the Town of Lausanne.
Several diseases of the skin, hair, or beard are due to parasites of different kinds.
It is known that these affections are readily spread, and that barbers' shops
that are not conducted properly often become dangerous sources of spread of
diseases. To guard against such ill consequences, the Local Commission of
Health has drawn up for barbers the following recommendations:—
1. The use of shelves, fittings, and tables of glass on which to rest the
instruments.
2. Each subscriber ought to possess his own instruments (razors, shaving brush,
comb, brush, &c.).
3. Before each operation the hairdresser ought to wash his hands with soap and
water, and brush himself.
4. Hairdressers are recommended to use as a disinfectant a 2 per cent, solution
of Lysol, i.e., a soup ladleful in a litre* of water. Brushes are particularly
difficult to disinfect, and it is necessary to restrict their use as much as possible.
The best means of sterilizing them consists in the employment of formalin vapour.
5. Face powder should always be applied by means of a pad of cotton wool,
which can be destroyed after each operation, or by means of a pulverizer.
6. People afflicted with contagious hair or skin diseases (scald head or scurf)
should not be shaved or have their hair cut in a barber's shop, but at their own
homes. Hairdressers and their workmen suffering from any of these maladies
ought not to be allowed to practice their profession.
The Municipality of Lausanne ordered the printing of these instructions, and
recommended their adoption on 29th August, 1902.
Vevey.
The Regulations in force in the Commune of Vevey are similar to the
foregoing, but there is one important addition, viz.:—
A hairdresser suffering from any hair or skin affection is prohibited from
carrying on his calling, and a hairdresser must refuse to serve persons suffering
from such disorders.
Rolle.
The Police Regulations in the Commune of Rolle enjoins that hairdressers
must take the strictest precautions by means of cleansing and disinfection of
their instruments with the object of preventing contagion. The Municipality
makes frequent visits in order to see that these measures are properly carried out.
*A litre equals 1¾ pints.