ONE of your readers, a woman with only one kidney, expressed concern (Letters, May 22) that if the water supply was fluoridated, she would never be able to cope with the amount of fluoride in the eight pints of liquid she has to drink every day.
I would therefore ask Dr Gary Whittle, the dental public health consultant, to give advice to those unfortunate to be in the same state of health as your correspondent.
The North West now has a problem, albeit with one citizen, but it is now a fact that someone's health will be further impaired by fluoride.
This is an outstanding example for the people to retain the right to their personal freedom of choice when medicating themselves.
Freedom is the act of an individual or government that harms nothing in creation; licence is the converse of this truism.
Dr Whittle, as our public servant, please advise the people on this serious health problem.
W J KNELLER (Secretary, Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Fight Against Fluoridation) Revidge Road, Blackburn.
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