Women having their hair shorn at a delousing facility
Title
Women having their hair shorn at a delousing facility
Description
This photograph presents one of the many delousing facilities in Łódź at the time of the First World War. Official policy required girls and women being treated at such facilities to have their heads shaved. Here we see this service rendered by a man in medical garb..
Source
The State Archives in Łódź
Date
1916
Identifier
PL_39_606_W-I 5-7
Tag
social welfare; healthcare; poverty
Collection
Citation
“Women having their hair shorn at a delousing facility,” Jewish Life in Interwar Łódź , accessed April 26, 2024, https://jewish-lodz.iu.edu/items/show/2005.