Saturday Morning Beard Fact

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April 25, 2015

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Extract from the Star newspaper, May 1902.

A movement against the beard has been started … For some years fashion has favoured the shaven face. Now come the doctors, declaring that the beard is a vehicle for the spread of disease germs, which may not only menace the health of the wearer, but also be transmitted to others; that the dairyman who wears a beard does so to the peril of his customers who drink the milk he contaminates; that doctors who wear beards report greater mortality among their patients than those who do not; that the man with a beard who enters a railway coach cannot come away without an addition of bacteria, which always infests such places.

Source: Moustaches, Whiskers & Beards, Lucinda Hawksley

 

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