Dowell v. City of Tulsa

/BLACKBIRD, Justice.

Plaintiffs in error commenced the present action, as plaintiffs, to enjoin defendants in error, as defendants, from enforcing and/or complying with Ordinance No. 6565, passed by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Tulsa, on March 3, 1953, authorizing fluoridation of said city’s water supply by its Water Department and Commissioner of Waterworks and Sewerage. The purpose of such fluoridation, as indicated in the ordinance, was “to aid in the control of dental caries” (tooth decay), and by reason of the emergency therein declared to exist for, “preservation of the…