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Show oCetterd to the Editor Woman favors fluoridation, quotes doctor As . an interested citizen, I have studied the question of Fluoridation at length. I would simply like to quote from an authority that I greatly admire. ad-mire. In his book, "Baby and Child Care", published in 1957 on Pgs. 241-242, Dr. Benjamin Benja-min Spock has this to say: "Floride in the water makes stronger teeth.. There is much less tooth decay in those parts of the country where fluoride occures naturally in the water. It is now added, in minute, safe amounts, to the water of many progressive communities as a public-health measure. Whenever it is proposed that fluoride be added to a city's water supply, it makes some citiens anxious. They discover literature that claims fluoridation fluorida-tion is harmful, and they may invite speakers from other cities, who are known as opponents op-ponents of fluoridation, to testify against it. It is well to remember that intensive and extensive studies were made by responsible scientists before artificial ar-tificial fluoridation was ever proposed and that all the possible pos-sible dangers and objections were carefully checked. Then committees of experts of the American Public Health Association, As-sociation, the American Den- in a million of fluoride, we j know that the amount of decay de-cay of the teeth will be reduced re-duced by about 60 per cent. "Unfortunately fluoridation has become a controversial issue, is-sue, not because any detriment detri-ment has been proved from its use but because the idea is frightening to some in divd-uals. divd-uals. The antidotes for these baseless fears are scientific data and public education." Respectfully submitted, Patti Willis tal Association, the AMA, and the US Public Health Service reviewed the evidence before publicly recommending fluoridation. fluor-idation. It gives you a better pres-pective pres-pective to realize that similar alarm was raised about vaccination, vac-cination, diptheria inoculation, and clorination of water before be-fore these procedures became generally accepted." On Friday, May 12, 1961, the following open letter by Dr. Spock was published in Allen-town, Allen-town, Pennsylvania: "To the people of Allentown: As a pediatrician interested in preventing pre-venting ill health I am enthusiastically en-thusiastically in favor of fluoridation. fluor-idation. Until recent years, little effective progress had been made in conquering the problem of dental decay, our most prevalent disease. ,'Now, we have at our disposal dis-posal a wonderful preventive measure which does not depend de-pend on the parents' means or their concientiousness or the availability of dentists. If a child from conception, receives water which contains one part |