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Tompkins Board of Health against adding fluoride in water
ITHACA — To take a stance, or not to take a stance, was the main question involving water fluoridation that was finally answered at the Tompkins County Board of Health’s lengthy meeting Tuesday afternoon. After listening to 14 comments from the public against fluoridating, and one comment in favor from an Ithaca dentist, the board […]
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Ithaca to Vote on Fluoridation in November
ITHACA — The Tompkins County Board of Health will be asked to take a stand today on the fluoridation of the City of Ithaca’s water supply. Public Health Director Alice Cole plans to put the question before the eight-member board, which is made up of local physicians; Tompkins County Rep. Charles Evans, R-Dryden; at-large member […]
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ALBANY: Crucial support for Albany fluoridation withers
A non-binding resolution from the Common Council and a word from the mayor did what Gen. Jack D. Ripper’s fictional takeover of a military base could not: They put an end to fluoridation, at least in Albany. A day after Mayor Jerry Jennings signaled his opposition to fluoridation and two days after aldermen voiced that […]
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Fluoridation Plan Divides Suffolk Residents
In the 1940’s, as municipalities around the country began putting fluoride into their water, opponents spoke darkly of Communists and said fluoridation was nothing less than a plot to control America through its faucets. The arguing died down in most places as studies began to show that fluoride did fight childrens’ tooth decay, and today, […]
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The St. Regis Syndrome
Long before Canada or the United States existed, Mohawks fished, hunted, trapped and farmed those islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence that are now known as the St. Regis Akwesasne Indian Reserve. But since 1959 a plague has fallen on their land, killing their livestock, destroying their agriculture, ripping apart the very fabric of […]
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Fluoride Pollution at Akwesasne Reservation
James Thompson pulls open the barbed wire gate leading to a grassy pasture and, with two mongrel dogs at his heels, steps inside to inspect his 50 head of Hereford cattle, all dying slowly from fluoride poisoning. His herd stands in minature; stunted, only waist-high. Calves are sometimes stillborn. The cows, after four years, can’t […]
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$750,000 Given In Child’s Death In Fluoride Case
A State Supreme Court jury awarded $750,000 yesterday to the parents of a 3year-old Brooklyn boy who, on his first trip to the dentist in 1974, was given a lethal dose of FLUORIDE at a city dental clinic and then ignored for nearly five hours in the waiting rooms of a pediatric clinic and Brookdale […]
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Manhasset: Voters Turn Out in Record Numbers to Defeat By Four To One Proposal to Fluoridate Public water Supply
The residents of the Manhasset Lakeville Water District turned out in record numbers on May 9, to defeat the proposal to fluoridate the public water supply. Residents of the district voted four to one against the proposal. This was Long Island’s first referendum on fluoridation and while it was only a gauge of public feeling […]
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New York’s Fluoridation Control
According to the March, 1951, issue of the New York State Health News, the New York State Department of Health has recommended that cities and villages fluoridate their potable water supplies; subject however to the ability of the municipalities to provide adequate control measures in accordance with requirements set forth by the department. A digest […]
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