Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — A "CLEAN” SHAVE. [ARTICLE]

A "CLEAN” SHAVE.

Precautions Which Might Be Adopted for the Safety of Customers. Nothing is easier than for contagion to be conveyed from a diseased to a healthy skin during the act of shaving, and many cases have now been recorded, sayS the Medical Press, proving that diseased processes have in this manner been propagated. Probably the readiest manner available to the barber for preventing such untoward occurrences would be by sterilizing his “instruments” by means of heat, either by steam or boiling water," ~ Razors should be made so that their handles would not suffer from the exposure to highdegrees of heat, and the rule should be enforced that in no case should any of the “instruments” be used consecutively without having first been submitted to the sterilising process. Under this rule, then, each customer would be sure of having a “clean” shave in more senses than one. Of course, also, on the principle of a “fresh pot of "tea for each customer,” a freshly scalded-out lather pot should be included with, each shave. Unless? these or similar precautions be carried out in barbers’ shops, cases of the conveyance of infectious Bkin diseases from customer to customer cannot fail to occur.