Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health › Part 14 - General Sanitation › Subpart 70 - General Sanitation Regulations › Chapter 5 - REGULATION GOVERNING BARBERING, BARBER SHOPS AND BARBER SCHOOLS › Subchapter 1 - INTRODUCTION › Rule 15-14-70-5.1.1

Current through June 25, 2024
It is hereby ordered that the Sanitary Regulations
						Governing Barbering, Barber Shops, Barber Colleges and Beauty Parlors, adopted
						by the Mississippi State Board of Health on July 15, 1930, amended May 13,
						1931, and August 13, 1934, be repealed and the following regulation be
						adopted:
1. All barber shops and
					 barber schools shall be open for inspection during business hours to official
					 representatives of the State Board of Health.
2. All barber shops and barber schools must
					 be supplied with adequate running hot and cold water, under pressure, from an
					 approved supply. All barber shops and barber schools located on streets or
					 alleys where a public sanitary sewer system is available shall have a sewer
					 connection to such sewer system into which all liquid waste shall be disposed.
					 Where a public sanitary sewer system is not available, all liquid waste shall
					 be disposed of in a manner approved by the Health Officer.
3. All barber shops, barber schools and all
					 furnishings, equipment, tools, floors, walls and ceilings shall be kept clean
					 and in good repair at all times. Hair must be promptly swept from the floor and
					 put in a closed container or taken from the room. Soiled lather paper and
					 soiled towels shall be kept in separate receptacles. The head-rest of each
					 chair must be covered with clean paper only and this paper, once used, must be
					 discarded. A clean towel or a fresh strip of paper must be placed around each
					 patron's neck so that the hair cloth does not come in contact with the skin.
					 Such material once used shall be .discarded. Spitting on the floor is
					 prohibited. If cuspidors are used, they must be thoroughly cleaned at least
					 once daily and a small amount of water, preferably some good disinfectant
					 solution, must be kept in them at all times. All barber shops and barber
					 schools shall be well lighted and ventilated.
4. In each barber shop or barber school,
					 there shall be provided receptacles for soiled towels. Each barber shall,
					 immediately after the completion of the service to a customer, place the towel
					 or towels used on each customer in such receptacle and no towel shall be
					 withdrawn from such receptacles and used on any customer until the towel has
					 been properly laundered. No soiled towels shall be left on the lavatory, barber
					 chair or back bar.
5. One of the
					 following approved methods of disinfecting must be available for use at all
					 times:
a. Immersion in boiling water or steam
					 for at least five minutes.
b.
					 Immersion for at least five minutes in bathing or grain alcohol
					 (70%).
c. Immersion for ten minutes
					 in 1 per cent solution Liquor Cresolis Compound.
d. Immersion for one minute in
					 hexylresorcinol (S. T. 37).
e.
					 Immersion for one minute in Metaphen (1 to 1000).
f. Immersion for one minute in Mercuric
					 Cyanide (1 to 5000).
g. Immersion
					 for one minute in solution Merthiolate (1 to 10010).
h. Immersion for one minute in I per cent
					 solution Beniodide of Mercury.
i.
					 Immersion for two minutes in Chlorine solution containing 200 parts per million
					 of Chlorine.
j. Ultra violet ray
					 cabinets may be used but will not be accepted as approved disinfecting
					 devices.
k. All disinfected
					 instruments and brushes when not in use shall be kept in a clean cabinet which
					 is used for these articles only.