Title

Schoolchildren learning how to rinse their teeth with fluorine, Landskrona, Sweden, 1965. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Schoolchildren learning how to rinse their teeth with fluorine, Landskrona, Sweden, 1965. The fluoridation of the water supply to prevent tooth decay aroused considerable controversy after it was first introduced in Sweden in 1952. The practice was declared illegal in 1961 by the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court. The ruling was overturned the following year but Sweden's parliament finally banned fluoridation in 1971. From the Landskrona Museum Collection.
Sweden, Landskrona museum

Date

1931

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Landskrona museum

Reference

HRM19D65_043

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,1Mb (2,6Mb) / 16,7in x 11,6in / 5016 x 3491 (300dpi)

Keywords

female people male child children girl girls man men health education class teacher desk Sweden Scandinavia Swedish Scandinavian guy cup watching school mouth skane schoolchildren chemical location century teaching teach classroom schoolchild rinsing furniture concept mouthful controversy B&W schoolgirl MONOCHROME primary school controversial water supply Sixties Dental Health black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century public health TGN photograph portrait Historisk Bildbyrå fluoridation fluoride Landskrona Unknown photograph portrait