| Show I IMPETIGO GETS fiETS A HOLD HERE i Remainder of Its Name Is and Its It's Unpleasant SOME SAY BARBERS' BARBERS ITCH ay Several Shops Have Been Closed and Disease Is Under Control Impetigo whatever whatever that thatIs Is Is-Is Is la epidemic In Salt Lake Lale and ond In spite of or the efforts of ot state bO board of or examiners of ot barbers the disease hns spread rapidly through tho the city The general opinion was that it was woJ I barbers bal Itch which has hIlS become do so general but Dr DI C c. M M. L Benedict physician phy phy- for Cor the board fald eaid last night that this thin Impre Impression lon Is erroneous as ns asIt asit It Is simply Impetigo Mo Most jt of tho the afflicted ones have been told that the they have barbers' barbers Itch as it ti has been feared that If they knew the medIcal name for Cor what they thoy have ha been breaking out on their faco face it would scare half hair of the tho people out of or tho the city Barbers' Barbers Itch Ith Is 19 scare enough but to tell a man he ho had Impetigo Im urn- would be worse than telling him him ho ito had tho smallpox Dr C C. M. M Benedict said last night that the worst of ot the epidemic Is over o and that there aio are on only a few Cew ca cases remaining In the tho city It Is probable that there are arc at least 25 cases known at nt the present time but a week ago ngo there were at least 75 76 In the city all with countenances with heavy beard to hide tho the scabs and amI give the sores a chance chanco to heal Tho difference differ differ- ence once between barbers' barbers Itch and Impetigo Impetigo impetigo Im Im- im- im accor according to Dr Benedict Is that barbers barbers' Itch attacks the hair hall on tho the head while tho the Impetigo Impetigo Im urn- simply appears on the face and sometimes spreads to the breast Slam Stamp Out DIsease Ve We have taken over every precaution to stamp out the disease said paid Dr Benedict Benedict Benediet Bene Bene- dict diet last night and antl tho barbers are arc with us to a man in this fight Thc They do not want ant it Bal said eaid about tho the shops of ot Salt Lal Lako o that they are aie unclean and that a n person cannot be bo shaved shave there thero without the danger of contractIng contractIng contract- contract Ing lug this disease I I do not know how It was brought to tho city nor noi how It originated It Tt Itma ma may be bo that it was brought In from some somo other elt city or It mo may be that It ft was started here and spread through tho the city before we were able to check cheele It We 0 e have closed up several shops during the last two weeks for thorough thorough thorough thor thor- ough fumigation after every even Instrument instrument ment mont In the lace Ince was as carefully cleaned and have havo thus thug put tho the contagion contagion contagion con con- under control Tho The disease spreads almost as rapIdly rapidly rap- rap Idl Idly as smallpox and arid the least little thing may start It on a man mah It may maybe maybo be bo spread by towels sponges or man many other v a ways 3 It Is often started by too close shavIng sha thus leaving leaving- the skin tender and open for Cor any Infection I know of or several cases where th tha th disease was contracted by men who have ha been shaving cs It Is caused from carelessness In keeping the tho razor razor or other things clean and ma may be contracted in fn the shop o or at home Bo Doss Boss Barbers Make 1 Report Of course wh when iI It Ii Is contracted In the tho shops there is more of ot a chance I for It to spread owing to the number of ot waited upon It Is pos l. l bio blo for Cor one barber to give the tho disease to several customers within a da day though the careful methods at most of or the shops makes this practically Impossible We Ve have singled out no noone noone noone one shop as several of ot the best ones onesIn onesin onesin in the city have had the misfortune to be reported in reported in fact In nearly ery e Instance the boss barbers have hav been the ones to report the tile matter themselves an and ask for the tion One case caso that was brought to our attention was rather peculiar A man contracted tho the disease downtown downton hero he was shaved out of his general general gen gen- eral custom for or he ho generally does the work at home homo and he ho passed th disease on to members of his family It is the first case caso that had como to tomy tomy tomy my attention We Va had to take caro care of ot the family In this Instance but after a careful fumigation and treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment the they were soon cured The man did not I know what was tho matter matterand matterand and shaved himself several sc times after atter the sores started to break out on his face Caco This naturally spread th the tUc disease all over his taco faco and he was In lit pretty bad condition before our out attention was called to tho the matter Cure Curo in Short Time Most 1 an any case cae can be cured In less than a n week If a man Is treated as its soon as oa the disease breaks out his faco face can be cleared up within three or four days Of course COUlSO it Is a bad thing but we o ha mao made a decided effort to stamp It out and now have ha the disease disease dis dis- ease ase well under control I belle believe that within another week there willbe will willbe willbe be practically practical no cases In Salt Snit Lake |
