If children are having fluoridated water, there is no need for them to have fluoridated milk.
However, the areas which were not previously fluoridated remain that way, which is a decision of the water company.
Present policy is to encourage area health authorities to fluoridate water.
Water boards fluoridate only at the request of the local health authority.
For something like £5 million a year, we could fluoridate the water supply of the whole country, and cut the incidence of decay by half.
Twenty-seven want to fluoridate, but because it is a metropolitan water authority, one council is sufficient to prevent this happening.
Water authorities are encouraged to comply with health authorities' requests to fluoridate.
Once that consultation had been carried out, and if there was a local majority, the water company serving that area would be obliged to fluoridate.
