The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-27
ON ASEPTIC BARBERING.
NOW WOULD IT DO TO ENFORCE
PARIS SANITARY LES HEREY
Voices Raised In Favor or surElcaNy Clean
Rnzors, scissors, Combs ana Brushes-May-
be tho Health board Could Manage It or
Maybe LeEisintion would he Required.

Voices Raised In Favor or surEically Clean
Rn.ors. scissors, Combs and Brushes-May
be the Health Hoard Could Manage 1t or
Maybe Legislation would He Required.
The talk OF the clubs and the hotels yesterday
was ofthe sanitary regulations which Paris bar
bers have recently been compelled to observe, in
order to protect their customers from septic
poisoning. The cause OF the talk was a London
despatch to THE Sun printed yesterday morn
ing. Tho despatch stated that, under orders
from the sanitary authorities. the Paris Project
Of Police has issued instructions to BARRIERS
which require that all metal tools which they
use in their trade, shall be plunged into boiling
soap suds Immediately after using. The bar.
bers are further required to substitute metal
combs FOR those ordinarily used, that the combs
may he the more easily cleansed and disinfect-
cd. Scissors, razors. clippers. and brushes must
be placed in a stove. heated to 100 centigrade,
or in q receptacle containing q prescribed chem.
ical solution, before use. Finally. the Paris
BARRIERS must wash their shaving brushes In
boiling water before and after using, and finish
ing with one customer, they must wash their
hands before passing to another.
BY the customers of barber shops, who dis.
cussod the matter yesterday, these instructions
were considered good enough to borrow and in
corporate into the sanitary code of the Greater
New York. A member of tho Union Club has
this to say about the matters:
Tho regulations prescribed by the Paris au.
thoritics are none too stringent, and the tools Of
no barber that l ever saw in New York or any
where else We're as clean as these regulations
regulations applying to combs, brushes and
shears than in the others, because l always
s eSssr2G myself ySs will i f ESH that Gill t ,hsso the are ,F fsM Sa to
Der shops in this city whore the combs. and
s sT9sasi are a barber Hs 'i is Tor as ca enS ' .o CLEANSE BE;
his comb and brush every time he uses them, 1t
is impossible for him, without doing some such
thing as the regulations compel,t to remove from
them accretions that no person would care to
have transplanted to his head, The resulations
should borrow them. The question that occurs
to me, however, is, how could they be en-
One of tho best.known physicians in the city
said; $50, 49, ~.
morning l remarked to a friend of mine: The
French have just done more for civilization
presses 1ren N my opinion Of the regulations SHAT that have
been fixed for Paris BARRIERS. In my opinion,
% %as no '6 bsrbcr rt shop in the w world AZ 10 be- shaved a1ssi
in. l don't mean by that to say that BARRIERS
arc not clesnly; Some of them are. but none of
a BARRIERS chair. suppose The cutielo on
blood that is drawn there may bo poison.
Some of It may adhere to the razor. In
the blood is bound to adhere to the lather brush.
When the barber finishes with the man, what
puts it away. You take your seat in the chair.
The probabilities are that you won't DO shaved
cred with the same brush from the Same cup.
How has that, been cleansed : IL it's warm
w wsssssF; oa the in sh soid xs Ssa:h II fna The cup WP.a Ma,a Be Be
cold, warm water will be used. The cold water
would would i, never vsIso kill ,o any sD germs to and nd til the T TsTm
DO inooplated. should the skin on your face be
There 10 not so much danger. though. in my
opinion; from carelessness in tho care OF shaw:
ing, tools as from carelessnoss in the care OF
and brush used regularly BY a barber tha. weFe
ever shall see one until BARRIERS are compelled
by law to nse greater care in the cleaning OF
PEELED he will never have time to clean a comb
and brush as it should be cleaned. There is alb
care oihis tools than surgeon takes Of his. Our
Board of Health should take this matter up at
fHSf; ' fo Hasi oSF f He sas 66efRS os a sh %s9Ri'a MAKE S{ ;h q
rule forbidding the use OF sponges as they are
f no~ S Sssa IN the our b. Gssgef so sn0e oSe 10 m Il Is second snd
time; and the alum. now used to stanch blood
, nnd which ids T. is ,n 9rudp. zone ! piece sns OF it"to do ser.
vice for months on one face or another. should
Either that or the use OF q fresh piece of alum
wi h each customer should be compulsory"
A lawyer, talking about the matter. suggested
said:
II cannot imagine a more popular man than
such regulations over the work OF our BARRIERS
as those THE SUN'sdespatch speaks OF as shaving
been established in Paris. Had such a law been
introduced in the last Lesislature the Repub,
forced to unite upon the introducer for Mayor
Of Greater New York. You ask II there
law. Not in tho least. In the first place.
the demand for its enforcement would be
50 great that every customer OF every barber
shop would personally see to 1t that the law
was enforced. Aside from that, why not have
inspectors of barber shops 7 We have inspectors
OF gas meters. The Board OF Health also EN-.
ploys men and women to inspect shops and
stores. for the purpose OF seeing that the SAM.
tary laws and those relating to the provision of
seats for employees are observed. Why not
have inspectors to see that such a law as the
one in question Is enforced ! II THE Sun will
give the people such a law, the people will sec