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“Fluoridation better choice in Plainville”
As we did in the year 2000 when North Attleboro voters faced the question of adding fluoride to the drinking water supply, The Sun Chronicle urges a Yes vote when Plainville voters face the same question on April 1. Adding a tiny amount of fluoride — at 1 part fluoride per 1 million parts of […]
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Worcester votes no to fluoridation
WORCESTER — There will be no fluoride in the city’s water supply. Voters once again blocked plans to begin adding fluoride to the city water supply, voting yesterday 56 percent to 44 percent against fluoridation. The victory came despite a $400,000 campaign aimed at convincing residents that fluoridation would reduce dental decay among children. Opponents, […]
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Help Educate the Boston Globe
Dear All, Over the past few days I have been thinking a lot about the outrageous editorial that appeared in the Boston Globe on November 1 ( see below). I am outraged for several reasons: 1) It is unprofessional. This paper has gone to the public on a serious public health issue and made pronouncements […]
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Boston Globe Editorial on Fluoridation
FLUORIDATION OF WATER is one of the great public health successes of the past 50 years. Voters in Worcester have an opportunity on Tuesday to bring this improvement in dental health to the residents of their community. Fifty-seven percent of the people in Massachusetts have access to fluoridated water, but many are reluctant to treat […]
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Fluoride foes call rival’s claims misleading
WORCESTER– Fluoridation opponents yesterday said the Central Massachusetts Oral Health Initiative has been “disseminating misleading and false information” in an attempt to persuade voters to approve fluoridation of the city’s water supply. Fluoride proponents defended their positions and contend that the measure’s opponents are singling out individual studies instead of “the preponderance of scientific evidence.” […]
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Fluoride Opponents Debate Videotape
WORCESTER– Worcester Citizens for Total Health, the group that is fighting a proposal to fluoridate the city’s water, wanted a debate. Its members wanted a debate because they have been frustrated by the refusal of fluoride proponents to engage them. So out of a sense of frustration, the group videotaped a recent presentation by the […]
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Fluoridated Water Not Preventing Rampant Decay Among Southbridge’s Poor
SOUTHBRIDGE – A volunteer committee of people involved with health care and children is searching for an answer to the problem many schoolchildren face each day: no dentists. “I get tired of saying, ‘I can’t help you,’” Jackee Cepeda, of YOU Inc., said of her response to school nurses looking for dentists for children. “Children […]
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Fluoridation is a heavy load for politicians
The voters of District 2 made a decision yesterday. They selected the two candidates who will face each another for the office of district counciloror come November. The voters’ selection came too late to be discussed in this column, but during the final week of the preliminary election campaign the five District 2 candidates all […]
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Worcester Citizens Get Enough Signatures to Put Fluoridation to a Vote
WORCESTER — Worcester Citizens for Total Health is pleased and proud to announce its success in placing the fluoridation issue on the November election ballot. Craig Manseau of the Elections Commission has confirmed that we have exceeded the 9,193 certified signatures needed by 1,242 (a total of 10,435) on Monday, September 10, 2001. Over 15,000 […]
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Health officials take sides in fluoride debate
WORCESTER — While an often bitter controversy over fluoridation has once again been joined here, Worcester is not alone in struggling with what has become an increasingly charged public health issue. Across the country and around the world, fluoride is generating public debate that is dividing communities and health officials in intense and often unpleasant […]
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