FLUORIDATION OF DRINKING WATER
COMMENDATION BY MEDICAL OFFICER (New Zealand Press Association) WANGANUI, July 16. “A pin’s head of sodium fluoride in every four gallons of drinking water is absolutely safe, but will reduce dental caries by 50 to 65 per cent.,” said the Medical Office of Health for Wanganui, Manawatu. and Hawke’s Bay (Dr. C. N. Taylor) in an address yesterday to the tenth annual conference of the New Zealand Association of Bacteriologists. Speaking of the decision to add a fluorine compound to the Hastings water supply, Dr. Taylor said: "Other city and borough councils will have to make this decision in the near future, and when they do I ask you to be guided by your medical, dental, and health authorities, and ignore the scaremongering propaganda of the type that has been put forward in Hastings.”
He said it was the most logical, and i certainly the cheapest way, to reduce the incidence of dental caries to add | fluorine to the public water supply.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27404, 17 July 1954, Page 10
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