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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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Brewster voters soundly reject fluoride
BREWSTER – By a more than a 2-1 margin, town voters yesterday said no thanks to more chemicals – fluoride – in the town water system. In a nonbinding ballot question, Brewster voters rejected the idea of adding fluoride to the water system by a 1,444-636 vote. By margins almost as large, voters also rejected […]
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Wakefield: Facing criticism, DPW chief details recent fluoride woes
WAKEFIELD — In a report, DPW Director Stephen Casazza has linked the cause of the elevated fluoride levels in the water system on Friday, July 28, to the apparent failure of a feed valve and the resulting “back siphon” of fluoride from the chemical feed system into the water supply at the Broadway Water Treatment […]
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Fluoride Malfunction in Massachusetts Water Plant
The difference between Wakefield and Norfolk is roughly 30 miles. But in terms of notifying residents about problems with the water system, it’s about 24 hours. “They tried to poison us and they didn’t even bother to tell us,” said Linda Collins of Wakefield after an overdose of fluoride seeped into the town water supply […]
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Brewster to discuss adding fluoride to water
BREWSTER – The opening round of what is sure to be a hot debate about the merits of adding fluoride to the town’s water system will start at 7 p.m. Tuesday in town hall. The informational meeting was scheduled by the Brewster Board of Health to review the town’s options on fluoride. Representatives from the […]
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Mentally retarded children given fluoride before legal
The state Department of Public Health fluoridated the water at the Wrentham and Belchertown state schools for the mentally retarded in 1947 – four years before a US public health recommendation and a state law allowing local communities to fluoridate. In the wake of other experiments at the state schools that apparently were conducted without […]
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