The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-23
SALT LAKE AND
STATE NEWS
STATE BOARD SUBMITS
A GRATIFYING REPORT
Utah BARRIERS Obey Laws Strict
Regulations-Few Cases
of Disease.

Salt Lake. Aug 22-The state
board of barber examiners yesterday
submitted Its annual report to the
governor. The report shows that dur
ing the entire year 1t has been unnec-
essary to make u single arrest In or
der to enfore the law What minor
violations Of the law there have been
have been due TO carelessness rather
than to any wilful dlsoDedience of the
law. and these have been Immediately
corrected when attention was directed
TO them
The report shows that there are LOG
barber shops In Utah, employing 555
journeymen BARRIERS and rs appren-
tees. In Salt Lake there are 237 bar
bers and SO apprentices working In 76
barber shops. During the year 81 out
of Ill applicants have passed exam
nations and have been given certifi-
Gates.
Something of an epidemic of impeti-
go. or "barberS Itch" broke out in
Salt Lake during the first of the year.
Under the direction of the state board
of barber examiners each shop was
fumigated and each case placed under
quarantine. and In n short time the
disease was stamped out.
The receipts from the examinations
and licenses issued were S1.411.45, ex-
ceeding the expenditures for the year
by S3.05.
The following list of deputy In
spectors is announced:
Beaver. Edward Hunter, Beaver City;
Box Elder. Oscar Peterson. Brigham
City; Cache. A. II Mitchell. Logan;
Carbon. John r, Ayre. Scofeld; Davis,
A. Birmingham. Bountiful: Emery. p
Frank Petty, Castle Dale: Grand
Charles Fish, Moab; Garfield, ]. L.
Clark; Panguitch; Iron, David H San.
din. Cedar City; Juab, n A. Nelson,
Nephi; Kane. William Crosby, Kanab;
Millard, F. C. Melville, Fillmore; Nor
gan. Arthur z. Lyon. Morgan City;
Piute, Henry Hales. Ju notion City;
Rich, Arthur Finley Randolph; Salt
Lake, Charles E White, Salt Lake
City; ]. T. Bean. Bingham; Carl Mork,
Murray; Sanpete. M. H. Sperry. Man
II, Sevler, II. S. Ivie, Rich1eld: Sum.
NIT. U. S. Bedell, Park City, Tooele.
Z. a. Bonelli. Tooele City: Uintah,
IL
Stewart, Provo: Wasatch. Frank En-
person. Heber City; Washington. w
w Gray. st. George: Weber. w. NJ.
Pigott president. and H. D. 3.
Brighton. Ogden.
In conclusion the report SAYS:
"The members Of the board feel sat
isfed with the conditions of the bar.
Der shops throughout the state. The
majority of the BARRIERS are In favor of
the law and help the board by seeing
that all BARRIERS are registered as soon
AS they apply for work, thus benefiting
themselves by protecting their own
work and prohibiting the transient
journeymen from absorbing the daily
earnings which rightly belong TO the
barber who has paid his fee and
passed this examining board success.
fully.
"We urgently invite the public at
large throughout the state to become
familiar with the rules and regulations
governing the sanitary conditions OF
barber shops. Those rules and regu-
latlons, according to the law, must be
posted in a conspicuous place in every
barber shop I'm the state
CNelS pdlueI suOp pdlIOn SQOul0
insist upon being served with abso-
lutely clean linen. and this includes
Turkish towels for massaging, clean
comb and brush. the mug and lather
brush must be cleansed with running
hot water, and the razor dipped into
q sufficiently strong antIseptic, prefer
ably a 20 per cent solution of for
which every barber should
have in front Of his chair.
IF the public would demand the
above as outlined it would be of good
service in helping the board maintain
the proper sanitary conditions in all
barber shops"
The report is signed by William NJ.
Piggott. president OF the board D ]
Watts. secretary, and DR.. c. NJ. Bene-
dict. treasurer.