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Brushes, scissors, razors and clipping machines can also be disinfected
without injury by keeping them for half an hour in a stove or an oven heated
from 100 to 110 degrees C. Directions are also given for disinfecting the
above by means of formaldehyde.
Shaving brushes should be placed in boiling water for several minutes
before use.
Dry powder, pulverizers or bellows should be substituted for powder puffs.
A hairdresser should always wash his hands and brush his clothes before
going from one customer to another.
Detailed instructions are also given as to the collection and destruction of
cut hair.
The most scrupulous cleanliness of all linen, &c., is insisted upon.
Hungary.—No regulations are yet in operation in this country.
"Some, however, have been drafted by the Municipal Council, but have
not been put in force in consequence of objections put forward by the
Guild of Barbers, and the matter is therefore still under consideration.
Mexico.—The Public Health Department has often advised the
practice of hygienical preventions, but no regulations are at present in
force.
Peru.—The Municipal Medical Officers pay periodical visits of
inspection to all the hairdressing establishments, and report whether or
not they observe the ordinary rules of cleanliness and sanitation.
Portugal.—His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, writes:—
"Unfortunately no regulations or statutes of any kind exist in
"this country controlling in the interests of the public health the
"business in question. This is undoubtedly the cause of the spread
"of a good deal of infection. As a precaution against this, a great
"many people keep their own combs, brushes, razors, scissors, &c.,
"under lock and key at their barbers."
Guatemala and Liberia may be classed together.
Guatemala.—The British Minister Resident states that some
regulations were drawn up a few years ago for controlling the business
of barbers and hairdressers in Guatemala, but that they have never been
enforced, and are now a dead letter. He was unable even to obtain a
copy of them.
Liberia.—The reply received from Monrovia, the capital of the negro
republic Liberia, West Africa, shows the characteristic failings of the race.
"They have absolutely no sanitary regulations of any kind or
"sort in this township, even sanitary precautions of the most
" primitive kind are ignored."