History of Water Fluoridation

Currently, just over 6 million English residents are compulsorily fluoridated.  That's 10% of the population.

No-one in Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man and the Isle of Wight is compulsorily fluoridated.  All have refused to have their drinking water turned into a medicine. The London Assembly declined the proposal to fluoridate London in 2000.  Many other cities have also refused to authorise the fluoridation of their constituents despite efforts being made by HM Government, Health Authorities, PCTs, Strategic Health Authorities and Public Health England. 

The areas fluoridated are the entire West Midlands and West Cumbria and parts of the North East and Northumberland, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Cheshire and Bedfordshire.  Places with appreciable natural fluoride (calcium fluoride and magnesium fluoride) are Hartlepool, the coastal areas on Essex, a very small uninhabited area to the east of Newbury and Uttoxeter

Fluoridation "trials" took place between 1955-1960 and fluoridation programmes were then initiated without individual consent between 1964-1988 in the areas coloured in dark green.  All 4 "trial" areas are now completely free of water fluoridation - Anglesey, Andover, Watford and Kilmarnock.  No other areas have been fluoridated since 1988 despite attempts to do so.  These attempts have been thwarted by determined opposition.  However, the North East of England in its entirety is destined for fluoridation by the end of 2028. That's 1.6 million people who have been given scant opportunity to refuse consent.

Water Fluoridation is a very strange practice which the UK inherited from the USA initially in 1955.  The USA then tempted UK local health authorities (and the Irish Republic Government) in the 1960s with American Dollars to initiate the process.  Although recent UK-Government-sponsored research has only found that fluoridation reduces dental decay by 3% in fluoridated 5-year-olds when compared to non-fluoridated 5-year-olds, the UK Government seems strangely blinkered by this conclusion which was paid for withUK tax-payers money!

That leads us to ask "why"?  What is going on?