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5. The floor of a barber's shop should be made of hard wood, or, if not so
made, should be covered with sound oilcloth or other impermeable floorcovering.
The floor of the shop should be frequently washed with hot water
and soap. As a matter of ordinary routine, it should be mopped every
morning with a damp woollen cloth. If the floor is to be swept it should
first be sprinkled with dampened sawdust or wet leaves, or oiled and then
swept, in order that as little dust as possible may be raised.
6. The shop or parlour should be well aired before the day's work is
begun, and it should also be ventilated during the day. The shop must
never be used as a dormitory. Every barber's shop should be provided
with running hot and cold water.
7. The shop should be kept very clean, as should also the chairs, razors,
clippers, brushes, towels and all other articles or instruments used in the
business. Towels should be carefully washed and boiled, and then rinsed
to remove the odour of soap.
8. Customers should be encouraged to use or have used on them their
own instruments (razors, soap, brushes, &c.), and in the case of persons
suffering from diseases of the skin, scalp, or hair, this practice should be
compulsory. For operations on the dead body, a barber should have
instruments used only for that purpose.
9. (a) Razors, clippers, and scissors may be disinfected by being boiled
for ten minutes in soapy water, or in water containing a little carbonate
of potassium. For this purpose the instruments should be laid in an
enamelled or galvanized metal dish, and be completely covered by the
water. After boiling they should be quickly cooled in cold water and
carefully dried. Steel instruments boiled in the carbonate of potassium
solution are not liable to rust.
(b) Razors may be disinfected by being held in a stream of boiling
water for thirty seconds. They should then be put into cold water for a
short time and carefully dried.
(c) Razors, clippers (disarticulated), and scissors may be disinfected
by being exposed in a dish for fifteen minutes to the action of Hebra's
spirit of soap, Spiritus Saponatus Kalinus* They should then be rubbed dry
(d) Razors, clippers (disarticulated), and scissors may be disinfected
by being exposed in a dish to the action of per cent. alcohol for
forty-five minutes. They should then be rubbed dry.
10. Hair brushes, shaving brushes, combs, and strops may be disinfected
by being first washed in a strong solution of sodium carbonate and soap,
and afterwards placed in a small air-tight closet or case, in which is kept
a saucer constantly filled with formalin, about one ounce of formalin to
each cubic foot of space. It is recommended that all instruments be laid
on racks or trays in this closet. This disinfection should be carried on
every night.
* Two parts of soft soap to one part of 95 per cent. alcohol, perfumed with lavender.