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Facts Concerning
Fluoridation
' Below is a statement byj. Robert Anderson, director of Bureau of Health Education, concerning fluoridation. /
Since the Virginia State Department of Health approved and endorsed a policy of fluoridation in December 1951, three Virginia cities have started adding fuloride to their water supplies, four other cities have received permits to begin fluoridation and 15 other communities have started action towards fluoridation, according to Dr. Mack I. Shanholtz, state health commissioner. •Virtually every health association in the country, including the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association, has gone on record favoring fluoridation for communities where water supplies arc known to be deficient in fluoride, Dr. Shanholtz said.
Dental and public health literature contains a large mass of evidence which demonstrates conclusively that there is approximately three times as much dental decay in childrlen who use fluoride-free domestic water as there is in children who are born and reared in communities whose drinking water contains 1 part per million or more of fluorine.
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