FLUORIDATION IN WAIMAIRI

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30274, 29 October 1963, Page 20

FLUORIDATION IN WAIMAIRI

Chairman Suggests Delay

FLunridatirai of the Waiinetai County Council's water supply should be delayed, said the chairman (Mir J. I. CoUgen) on Saturday when commenttog on the experiments and findings of two Oxford medtoal workers.

While there wee doubt in the moods of experts the 48,000 people in the Wataadri county should be given the benefit of it and fluoridation should be delayed, pending further invesbigaitiion. Hie people should then be given the right to express their awn wish by referendum, Mr CoMiigan said.

Cr. W. T. Rice said he was Mensted to reed on Saturday that two British medical workers daitned to have Laboratory evidence of the tasicity of fluorides to human and animal cells in a test tube environment. The workers themselves had admitted that test tube conditions might not reproduce the conditiooß which existed in the human body.

Or. Rice said he hoped to read the statement in fuM at an early date. As a layman one. thing struck him. If any logical condusiion could be drawn at this stage from the report, it would be that all human ceils in metropolitan

Christchurch should have “packed up” ages ago because the residiente had been drinking for years with a natural fluoride content three times the strength which these medical workers had been experimenting with.