wet 'Use Of Fluoridation Expanding In Canada {tions and the Health League + ets plebiscites in Nova Sco- lo Staft Writer |Canada. jtia--Halifax, Dartmouth, Wolf- | Canadian Press Sta | Fluoridation stems from the|Ville and Kentville. The anti- | Fluoridation of community) aiscovery many years ago that|fluoridation forces won in New lwater supplies -- hailed on ri eople born and raised in Glasgow two years ago. By KEN KELLY hand as a great contribution to) 1-245 with a high proportion of, Fluoridation op; - ponents gen dental health and attacked on inierally followed similar lines of the other as a threat to civil fluoride naturally present water supply had good, rights -- is making slow but! strong teeth. lsteady progress toward wider lacceptance in Canada. |FIGHTS ACIDS | A Cross - Canada Survey by| Experiments |The Canadian Press showed fluoride gave teeth a protective one of every 13 Canadians lives coating against mouth acids |within reach of water to which/that cause tooth decay. ifluoride has been added a8 8) put the next step -- addition |means of curbing tooth decay-|o¢ fiuoride in the proportion of | In Manitoba, more than half|one part of fluoride to 1,000,000 lthe population is included parts of water--lies at the heart indicated the argument. Edward Moxey, president of the B.C, Pure iFoods Guild, seems typical: "Fluoridation of public water {supply is a violation of demo- leratic rights because people who don't want to take it can't javoid it." | He also uses another argu- jment--that fluoride is a cumu- jlative poison which hardens bones as well as teeth. | Brantford has been the sub- \Ject of a continuing federal | study. A study of tooth decay jrates was made in Moose Jaw, iSask., in 1952, the year before \fluoridation began there. Seven years later a survey indicated a reduction in tooth decay rang- ling between 25 per cent in the loldest group of children and 60 jper cent in the youngest. | The experience was similar jin naturally fluoridated Aylmer, /Ont., which was compared with {non-fluoridated St. Thomas, Ont. Two years after fluoridation jwas started in 1955 in Brandon, Man., a survey showed a marked decrease in tooth decay. An Ontario government com- mittee studying fluoridation re- ported last year that it found, among other things: 1 . 4 + Tie presence: of fluoride in the recommended concentration does not cause corrosion of water mains, pipes and fittings nor does it affect jadversely in any way industrial jbe extremely serious--may not, be apparent. for some time." Dr. J. C. Bouillon, Montreal's supervisor of dental hygiene, says the big stumbling block is "massive public indifference." "It has become a matter of educating the public. Unfortu- nately, dental care is something that does not impress the public much." Fluoridation has been ap- proved in plebiscites held at Whitby, Renfrew and Streets- ville in Ontario, Athabasca, Coaldale, Fort Saskatchewan, Leduc, St. Albert, Ralston and Cold Lake RCAF base in Al- berta, and Kamloops in B.C. Chatham, Ont., plans. fluorid- ation but city council delayed final reading of the bylaw pend- ing a report on cost and operat- ing procedure. Windsor, Ont., city council has approved fluoridation but a referendum will be held any- way in December. Other On- tario referendums are scheduled in December in Metropolitan CAROL ANNE ~ |in municipally operated pro- of the controversies in many grams. The proportion is'Canadian communities. |SAYS RIGHTS INVADED greater than one in _ in -- Provincial laws on fluorida-) These arguments also were |Scotia. One - third of S-\tion were either non-existent--|used in anti-fluoridation cam- i |katchewan's urban residents|i, Newfoundland, New Bruns-|paigns in Alberta, coupled with | |live where water is fluoridated.| wick, Prince Edward Island,|another--that plumbing {s cor- 'AND MARGOT | Girls Don't Mix School, Ballet CALGARY (CP). Some young people break off their schooling to escape discipline, but Carole Anne Innes and Margot Gooder quit because school didn't leave them time to practise it The girls are trim and grace- ful students of ballet. Carole Anne is 17, and Margot 18, but they already feel their best op- portunity in the art lies in Eng- land, and they plan to leave together next fall. Both girls formerly had ideas of going to university but de- cided that school and ballet don't mix. "You can't do well in both," said Carole Anne. "You can't train seriously if; you're going to chool," said) Margot. "If you're going to) make a career of ballet, you can't go on to university." Margot finished her senior matriculation n Calgary last year, and her parents left the university question up to her CROWDED SCHEDULE Carole Anne said her home- work "just went." She had four dancing classes a week and "q| could never get it done." She also had to find time for| keep-fit classes, evening recre-| ation classes for children aged) ® to 12, and rehearsals for a) ring musical comedy produc-| on. | Margot teaches nursery clas-| ges each morning, ballet in the) afternoon, and "sometimes" | practises. She also had fitness classes, and rehearsals for |three amateur musicals, for one fof which she was. choreo- | grapher. Both feel that all this work will have been worth it if they jcan get to London. Once there, they plan to operate as free- lance dancers "That way, we can go to the jbest classes in verything," |said Margot. "We can have the best teachers, since we will go to one school for jazz, another for character. and another ballet." SERIOUS PUPILS Carole Anne has a background of study with the National Bal- let Company summer school in Toronto two years ago, and last summer in Banff, Alta. She re- turns to he banff School of Fine Arts this summer on a scholarship Margot studied with the Ca- nadian School of Ballet in Win- nipeg for three years, and has had four summers at the Banff _@ \ican : * fluoridaiton in 1945, more than for Only in Newfoundland, New| Quebec and Manitoba -- orjroded by fluoridated water. Brunswick and Prince Edward tossed the problem to the in-The Manitoba Pure Water Island have no communities dividual municipalities to de-/ League argued that fluoridation isuccessfully undertaken fluori- cide in various ways. is mass medication contrary to dation programs. | Nova Scotia was first with|individual rights e {provincial legislation. A 1955] Poison, civil rights and prop- ere Dea Oa law enabled municipalities tojerty damage are main themes ; e of three North 'Amer-| teat water as they saw fitlof opposition across the coun came one o! vice to begin Without @ plebiscite on fluorid-|try. Usually it's expressed in areaenge wert ation. letters to the editor or in pam- towns and) The following year Albera)phlets, public meetings door- ions ottal- decided that municipal coun-|to-door canvasses or paid ad- taken thisicils could fluoridate water Vertisements. through a bylaw if endorsed by| Organized support for fluor- They range in size from Win- two-thirds of the voters. idation at the municipal level nipeg with 255,000 residents to| B.C. and Saskatchewan acted| generally comes from dental, Carrot River, Sask., with 1,000./in 1957, B.C. requiring a three-|medical, professional, citizen Another dozen communities /fifths majority for a municipal|and parent societies. Nation- plan to begin fluoridation this|bylaw and Saskatchewan per-|ally, the Health League and year. | mitting fluoridation by bylaw or|the : pasagre ageogle sg ke . Se te | petition jtion have taken up the battle a ee -- . : through pamphlets examining as Stratford, Ay qaorid OPPOSITION WINS anti-fluoridation arguments pana in asi Rage hi Ontario last year authorized detail. tion as never per sf " since they have natural fluor- tt by referendum based on : A dental association pam- Rage: id s jsimple majority of voters or by|phlet says fluoridation not ides in their water supply. jmunicipal bylaw passed by a mass medication. Medication is Nearly every attempt to majority of municipal council.|the administration of remedies, fluoridate in recent years WAS) As various communities be-|fluoridation a preventive step |marked by vocal and some-\p5y gdopting fluoridation, op-|like chlorination and pasteuri- -- well - organized OPPosi-/ position mounted. It was not al-| zation on ways as well-organized or as th ssociation's offici But as experience and the ev-| successful as in a 1961 plebis- sition fe that, flooridation Me idence of scientific studies piled/ cite in Edmonton where a Pure!cafe from any ill effects and up, fluoridation found advo-|Water Association raised funds,|jc effective in reducing tooth cates among lay groups and/hit every household with anlqecay by approximately two- such professional organizations! anti - fluoridation pamphlet and/ thirds." -- aie EG as the Canadian dental, medi-jsaw the vote in favor cut to cal and public health associa-|55.7 per cent from the 64.6 per| STUDIES MADE et 2 errs cent registered two years ear-| This figure of tooth decay re- examiner is on biennial lier. duction is supported by a num- visit from England There was a minimum of con-| ber of studies in fluoridated and They have no plans after Lon-| troversy in the successful fluor-inon - fluoridated communities. 80 Canadian cities, lvillages with populat ling 1,353,500 have step. in is his processes." 2. "'Wemkold the firm opinion that the fluoridation of munici- pal water supplies by the auth-| ority of appropriate legislation) ;would not be a denial of any) fundamental ox basic civil right or liberty..." | FINDS APATHY The committee added its voice to the long list of organizations !and groups which declare fluor- idation to be free from harm- ful physical effects and effec- tive in reducing tooth decay. | However, in the face of all this evidence health authorities evidently do not feel the public is alert enough to the advan- tages of fiuoridation. "What we're fighting is apathy and indifference," says Dr. Gordon Bates, general di- rector of the Health League of Canada. "Dental caries (cavi- ties) is not like polio, which can Toronto and St. Thomas. Tomorrow GAME NIGHT AT THE Y.W.C.A. 199 CENTRE ST. 9TO 12 ADMISSION 50¢ EVERYONE WELCOME Table Tennis, Shuffle Board and Cards etc. ANNUAL ST. PATRICK'S DANCE N.U.P.S.E. LOCAL 50 (Board of Works) ON FRIDAY, MARCH 16th AT 8:30 P.M. 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