Call to do the right thing
I recently attended a talk chaired by Darlington Green Party Councillor Matthew Snedker, and addressed by Doctor John Furness, who was there to promote water fluoridation for Darlington.
In the journal Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, he suggest adding fluoride to the “We desperately need funds in order to keep Rainbow Trust going.” water of deprived areas of Manchester, most of South Yorkshire, Hull and North Yorkshire, County
Durham and Teesside, on the assumption fluoride will lower admissions to hospital for tooth extraction in young children.
However, poverty is not always linked to poor oral health, so how are you going to ensure those not needing this do not get it?
Sunderland (currently targeted for fluoridation), suffers from deprivation. Public Health England tells us (in 2018):- "Sunderland is one of the 20% most deprived districts/unitary authorities in England and about 23% (11,100) children live in low income families".
Over a three-year period, average hospital extractions due to tooth decay in nonfluoridated Sunderland in the age range 0-9, were two-thirds less than in fluoridated North Tyneside, an area with the lowest level of childhood poverty in the North East.
Perhaps Doctor Furness could comment?
'Dark Waters' – the alleged poisoning (via tap water) of 70,000 people with Perfluoro-octanoic Acid (PFOA) is in cinemas now.
Our national organisation - the UK Freedom From Fluoride Alliance - has been attempting to debate with Local Authorities in the North East, but our entreaties have been consistently disregarded.
With over 400 studies worldwide showing fluoride reduces human intelligence our councillors can no longer ignore this. Act now – do the right thing.