Record#

EV ID

EV-0237

Title

Papers of Patrick Clavell Blount (National Anti-Fluoridation Campaign): file “Wales”

Date of document

1972–1989

Type

archive file (catalogue entry)

Evidence label

CATALOGUE ENTRY ONLY

Repository / reference

Wellcome Collection, PP/PCB/C/1/47 (catalogue record). Open; closed stores; not digitised.

Status

PENDING — ON HOLD. File not opened. No document links Mary (Nancy) Williams, formerly Buckler, to it.

Provenance

Catalogue record read by Tab’s research (fluoride lead), 19 Oct 2026; catalogued by Tab at Sion Buckler’s request (“Make sure wordpress wiki has everything we discussed”, 19 Oct 2026).

Related evidence

Kissed Frogs register

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Catalogue description (verbatim): “Papers relating to Welsh anti-fluoridation campaigners … Newspaper cuttings, 1981-1982; Correspondence with various anti-fluoridation supporters and campaigners, 1972-1982; Transcript from an Isle of Anglesey Borough Council meeting …”.

Why it is listed: per Sion Buckler (voice note, 19 Oct 2026): “Mary Williams was doing something to do with a guy with fluoride and they were doing political stuff about government overreach.” If she wrote to the national campaign in 1972–82, this is where a letter would be (inference).

Cuts against: Cardiff and the Vale were never fluoridated; in 1987 the only fluoridated areas in Wales were in Gwynedd and Powys (Hansard, 23 Mar 1987). No document found on the wiki, the family sites or in correspondence mentions fluoride.

Proves: Nothing yet.

Does not prove: Any link between Mary (Nancy) Williams and a fluoride campaign.