FLUORIDATION OF WATER
oir, — lhe medical correspondent of “The Times,” quoted in “The Press.” says there are two alternatives to fluoridating the public water supplies —one being tablet form administered to the child by the parents. But there is no guarantee that parents would give the tablets regularly; therefore, he continues, “there is a strong practical objection to this suggestion.” There is also a strong practical objection to this usurping of parental control, which is an unwarrantable infringement of human rights, especially when many parents disapprove of giving artificial fluorides in any form whatsoever. “The Times.” in a leading article on fluorides on December 3, 1955, said: “Important principles are involved, and ‘experts’ are too readily persuaded that what they propose is of great importance and that the public is too stupid to realise it. It is an attitude likely to recoil on those who adopt it.”—Yours, etc., . VIGILANT. August 16. 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28050, 18 August 1956, Page 3
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