TOOTH DECAY IN BRITAIN
Adding Of Fluoride To Water Proposed
LONDON, July 8. A British dental mission, which has returned from Canada and the United States, has recommended that fluoride should be added to water supplies to help prevent dental decay. The mission, in its report to the British Government, said studies in the United States showed that where children and adults drank water with a natural fluoride content, dental decay was 60 per cent, less than in areas without fluoride in the water.
The report said many United States and Canadian authorities had added fluoride compounds to district water reservoirs. The mission found that eventually fluoridation of water would reduce dental decay, but it would take a long time. The mission said it could not find any evidence that fluoridation of water harmed any industrial process which used mainly water, such as bottling, brewing, baking, laundering or chemical manufacturing.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27090, 13 July 1953, Page 10
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