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TURKEY.
In March, 1901, in order to prevent contagion of skin and other diseases
in barbers' shops, the Municipality of Constantinople issued the following
regulations:—
Barbers are to wash their hands well with soap before beginning work, and to
cleanse their brushes and combs in water with 5 per cent. of soda in it.
Scissors, razors, and clipping machines to be boiled in soapy water for ten
minutes.
All razors are to have metal handles—pending the procuring of such, razors with
bone, ivory, or tortoiseshell handles are to be well rubbed with a cloth moistened
with spirit.
Towels to be washed every day in boiling water.
Hair to be swept up with wet sand or sawdust.
Spittoons to be provided in every shop.
Cleanliness in every respect to be enforced.
No one suffering from contagious disease to be allowed to practice as barber.
Infractions of the regulations to be severely punished.
URUGUAY.
The following is a translation of the regulations in force in Uruguay:—
National Council of Health.
Ordinance No. 118.
Montevideo, 26th February, 1903.
The National Council of Health duly authorised thereto has resolved to modify
Ordinance No. 1 on antiseptic treatment in the hairdressers' shops in the following
manner:—
Clause 1.—All hairdressers' instruments which are used for the service of the
public, with the exception of those exclusively for private use, shall be subject to
the antiseptic measures indicated in the following articles.
Clause 2.—The metallic instruments, razors, combs, scissors, and mechanical
apparatuses, after having served for any customer, are to be immersed for five
minutes in a metallic receptacle containing boiling water, to which has been
previously added a piece of soap or carbonate of soda in the proportion of 50
grams per litre of water.* The said utensils and the straps may also be disinfected
by subjecting them to the action of formol vapours during 15 minutes in an
apparatus controlled by the Institute of Experimental Hygiene.
Clause 3.—The metallic instruments may also be disinfected in a stove with
heated air by keeping them during 15 minutes in a temperature of from 100 to
110 degrees C.
*This solution not only does not alter the edge and tempering of the instrument, but preserves the
same from oxidation or rust. Provided that they are completely immersed they may remain for
entire hours and days in the said liquid without suffering the least alteration.
The disinfection is completed within ten minutes.