The chlorination of water supplies began early in the twentieth century as a response to cholera and typhoid epidemics (water-borne pathogens) which were killing many people.

It worked; people stopped dying of cholera and typhoid.

Instead they began developing cancers, arteriosclerosis, heart disease and other chronic degenerative diseases, years later.
See the book, "Coronaries Cholesterol Chlorine" by Joseph M. Price, MD.
Cholesterol-bearing foods took the rap, even though people had been eating them for centuries without these problems.

Many people are aware of the importance of removing chlorine from drinking water, few know that removing it from bathing water is even more important. In fact, the Europeans refused to compete in the Olympic pool in Los Angeles during the 1984 Olympics until the chlorine was removed and an alternate purification method was installed. Ozonation, being the method of choice in this instance.

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