original observations and the actual work done by the reporters will be of value to Canadian hygienists as showing the capacities and limitations of the septic tank system of sewage disposal. Dr. Amyot's report was received and the Chairman, Dr. Vaux, stated that he would appoint a day when it could be more fully discussed, as the members had not had sufficient time to master the minutes of this report. Regulations for the guidance of barbers, to ensure greater cleanliness and to prevent the spread of skin, scalp and other diseases, were adopted by the Provincial Board of Health on recommendation of the Committee on Epidemics, Drs. Cassidy, Bryce and Oldright. A deputation from the Barbers' Protective Association of Toronto, consisting of Messrs. H. Joy (Chairman), H. Thompson (Secretary), and Messrs. Beamish, Bryan and Clark, were present, and after a long discussion approved the general principles, and promised to bring them before their organization. The regulations, which were prepared in the hope that they may be adopted by the various barbers in the Association, or individually, throughout the Province, are as follows: HYGIENIC REGULATIONS FOR BARBERS, RECOMMENDED BY THE PROVINCIAL BOARD OF HEALTH OF ONTARIO. 1. A barber should be clean and neat in his person and dress, should use the bath regularly, and be particular in maintaining a healthful condition of the mouth and hands. 2. No person suffering from any disease of the skin, scalp or hair should act as a barber, nor should anyone suffering from consumption, or any disease commonly known as contagious, serve in this capacity. 3. If diphtheria, scarlet fever, smallpox, measles, or any other contagious disease should occur in the family of a barber, or among his friends or acquaintances, he should not nurse or visit the patients, nor in any way come in contact with them, and if any such disease should appear in his own dwelling or boardinghouse, he should temporarily change his residence. 4. Persons suffering from any disease of the skin, scalp or hair, or from consumption, or persons who have recently recovered from diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever, or other contagious disease, should not visit any barber shop or parlor, but should be attended by the barber or hair-dresser at their own homes. All instruments used on such patients should be carefully disinfected after such use. 5. The floor of a barber shop should be made of hard wood, or if not so made, should be covered with sound oilcloth or other impermeable floor covering. The floor of the shop should be frequently washed with hot water and soap. As a matter of ordinary routine it should be mopped every morning with a damp woollen cloth. Sweeping is not recommended. If the floor is to be swept, it should first be sprinkled with dampened sawdust or wet tea leaves and then swept, in order that as little dust as possible may be raised. 6. The shop or parlor should be well aired before the day's work is begun, and it should also be ventilated during the day. The shop must never be used as a dormitory. Every barber shop should be provided, if possible, with running hot and cold water. 7. The shop should be kept very clean, as should also all of the chairs, razors, clippers, brushes, towels, and all other articles or instruments used in the business. Towels should be carefully washed and then rinsed to remove the odor of soap. 8. Customers should be encouraged to use, or have used on them, their own instruments (razors, soaps, brushes, etc.), and in the cases of persons suffering from diseases of the skin, scalp or hair, this practice should be compulsory. For operations on the dead body a barber should have instruments used only for that purpose. Disinfection of Instruments. 9. Razors and clippers may be disinfected by boiling for five or ten minutes in soapy water, or in water containing a little carbonate of potassium. For this purpose the instruments should be laid in an enamelled or galvanized metal dish, and be completely covered by the water. After boiling they should be cooled in cold water and carefully dried. Steel instruments boiled in the carbonate of potash solution are not liable to rust. 10. Hair-brushes, combs and strops may be disinfected by placing them in a small closet or case, which closes hermetically (is air-tight), in which is kept a saucer constantly filled with the 40 per cent. solution of formalin, about one ounce of formalin to each cubic foot of space. It is recommended that all instruments be laid on racks or trays in this closet after using. If this is done, every customer can have a thoroughly disinfected instrument for use in his case. 11. Brushes and combs will need cleaning with bran or clay and hot water at intervals. 12. Shaving brushes may be entirely dispensed with, and a puff of cotton used instead, which can be destroyed after one using. A shaving brush may be disinfected by being placed in boiling water for five minutes before using. 13. Before passing from one customer to another, the barber, or hair-dresser should thoroughly wash his hands. He should use warm water and carbolic soap, or one containing mercuric chloride. 14. The powder puff should be replaced by the powder blower, or by a ball of wadding. The wadding should be thrown away after one using. 15. A stick of alum should never be used to stop the flow of blood. A small piece of alum, after being used on a customer, should be thrown away. Some prefer burnt alum, applied on cotton, which can be thrown away after one using. 16. Sponges should not be used in a barber's work, because they cannot be cleaned as a towel may be. In place of sponges, towels or balls of absorbent cotton should be used. 17. Toilet wax should not be used indiscriminately; each person should have his own toilet wax. 18. The hair-dresser should remove vaseline from the vessel containing it with a spatula or spoon, and not by inserting his possibly contaminated fingers into the vessel. 19. Only strictly clean linen, towels, wrappers, etc., should be used for each customer. If a freshly laundered wrapper cannot be supplied for each customer, a clean towel should be used in place of the wrapper. Respectfully submitted, J. J. CASSIDY. P. H. BRYCE. Dr. Oldright reported, as a delegate at the recent American Tuberculosis Conference at New York. A permanent organization for fighting the white plague has been formed under the caption of the "American Association," and a world's conference will be held at St. Louis in 1904. The Committee on Epidemics was authorized to co-operate with other societies to further the success of this conference. The quarterly meeting then closed. Bleeds, but Saves the Blood.-An exceedingly attractive little folder, more like a Xmas card than anything else, is being mailed to all of the profession in Canada by The Denver Chemical Manufacturing Co., of New York City. It tells of the therapeutic value of Antiphlogistine, which "bleeds, but saves the blood." Won Rare Honor -Dr. Charles B. Shuttleworth, son of Prof. Shuttleworth, city bacteriologist, who has been for some time in Europe, has secured the English qualifications of L.R.C.P. and M.R.C.S., and has just succeeded in passing the examination granting him the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, an honor accorded to very few in Canada. Dr. Shuttleworth will return to Toronto at once. Journal of Medicine and Surgery J. J. CASSIDY, M.D., EDITOR. 69 BLOOR STREET EAST, TORONTO. Surgery-BRUCE L. RIORDAN, M.D., C. M., McGill University; M.D. University of Toronto; Surgeon Toronto General Hospital; Surgeon Grand Trunk R. R.; Consulting Surgeon Toronto Home for Incurables; Pension Examiner United States Government and F. N. G. STARE, M.B., Toronto, Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, Lecturer and Demonstrator in Anatomy, Toronto University; Surgeon to the OutDoor Departinent Toronto General Hospital and Hospital for Sick Children. Clinical Surgery-ALEX PRIMROSE, M.B., C.M. Edinburgh University; Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Anatomical Department, Toronto University: Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery. Toronto University; Secretary Medical Faculty, Toronto University. Orthopedic Surgery--B. E. MCKENZIE, B. A., M.D., Toronto, Surgeon to the Toronto Orthopedic Hospital; Surgeon to the Out-Patient Department, Toronto General Hospital Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, Ontario Medical College for Women: Member of the American Orthopedic Association; and H. P. H. GALLOWAY, M.D., Toronto, Surgeon to the Toronto Orthopedic Hospital: Orthopedic Surgeon, Toronto Western Hospital; Member of the American Orthopedic Associa tion. Oral Surgery-E. H. ADAMS, M.D., D.D.S., Toronto. Gynecology and Obstetrics-GEO, T. MCKEOUGH, M.D., Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology-ARTHUR JUKES JOHNSON, M.B., MR.C. Eng.; Croner Coun y of W. A. YOUNG, M.D., L.R.C.P. LOND.. GENERAL MANAGER. 145 COLLEGE STREET, TORONTO. Pharmacology and Therapeutics-A. J. 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TORONTO, JANUARY, 1903. Editorials. OVER THE HOOKAH. NO. I. AGAIN comes to us the privilege and very great pleasure of expressing to our readers, subscribers, and business friends hearty thanks for their kind appreciation of our united efforts in trying to make our journal of interest to all, and for the many complimentary adjectives they have added to our banner word"Success." We are, indeed, grateful for the untiring support that has sustained and encouraged our publication until the present, and now, as we enter our thirteenth volume, we feel we can cast fear to the winds and say with the poet : "Hope beckons from the future, where countless joys expand, And life seems to our vision, like an enchanted land." As the JOURNAL has reached the years of early manhood and unbounded conceit, it has, of course, outgrown its swaddling clothes, and although just the same little Cuss that its worst enemy has patted on the head and said, "growing as fast as a weed," it has simply grinned, looked in the mirror to see if its angel wings were sprouting, but not finding them visible as yet, just perked up its dress a bit with a garland of maple leaves and laid bare its heart to the public like a trusting swain, by making known its contents. Big with the weight of a good name, we feel that the cover chosen is one of the most fitting, if not the handsomest, worn by any Canadian medical journal. Long may it close over all that is newest, brainiest and best in medical lore, and uphold its high calling and the dignity of our noble profession. As the old year is dying in the night-to all who have been with us and contributed so graciously by their good fellowship, their pens, and their gold, through every step of the long road over the twelve mile stones, we say from our hearts-thank youand as 1903 peeps in at the window we wish to all the joy that comes with the morning. W. A. Y. UNIFICATION OF THE PHARMACOPŒIAS. Ir appears that a measure of unification between the pharmacopoeias of different countries will be brought about in the near future. A conference was held at Brussels, capital of Belgium, last October, between delegates representing the United States and the principal countries of Europe, in order to provide for the uniform composition of medicaments, which are generally used in all countries. It was at Paris in 1867, at the Second International Congress of Pharmacy, that the principle of the unification of the formulas of medicaments in the different pharmacopoeias was laid down. Later on, in 1889, at the initiative of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, the government of the latter country held conferences with the different authorities interested, and laid down |