ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 14, Number 1
JKCSEZ 14(1)
February 20, 1970 

66 samples of underground waters at the town Onyang were collected and analyzed from August 19 to November 5, 1969. Fluorine more than 1.0 mg/l is contained in the under ground waters in the region 0.9 km away from the Onyang hot springs, fluorine more than 0.3 mg/l in the waters in the region 1.2 km away from the hot springs, and 0.04-0.29 mg/l fluorine in the waters in the region from 1.2 km to 3.9 km away from the hot springs. It is advisable that the residents in their teeth growing ages must not drink the underground waters in the region 1.2 km away from the hot springs because the waters cause dental trouble (mottled teeth) and they may drink the waters in the region from 1.2 km to 3.9 km away from the hot springs for the fluoridation of their teeth. It is reasonable to suppose that the high fluorine contents of the underground waters are caused mainly by the contamination of the hot spring waters in which fluorine and calcium in rock are dissolved, in the region 1.2 km away from the hot springs, and that the waters in the region from 1.2 km to 3.9 km away from the hot springs contain much fluorine produced by the decomposition of organic substances.