Irish Law On Fluoride
Special Correspondent N-Z-PAJ
LONDON. August 2A housewife lost a 87-day Court action over the water that comes out of her kitchen tap, and was ordered to pay costs, which may amount to £250.000. says the “Daily Express ” She lodged an appeal to the Irish Supreme Court and a stav was granted. Mrs Gladys Ryan, the 34-year-old wife of a barrister of Drumcondra. near DubTn. had challenged the right of the Eire Government to introduce fluorine into the country's water supplies to counter tooth decay in children.
She asked the Dublin High Court to declare an empowering act contrary to the constitution.
Experts from several parts of the world were called in Mr Justice Kenny, giving judgment, said the law, although it compelled health authorities to fluoridate water supplies, did not impose on anybody the obligation to drink treated water. It did not prevent anybody from extracting fluorine from water.
Nor did it affect the authority of a family under the constitution, the Judge ruled.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30200, 3 August 1963, Page 11
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