Proclamation No. 316 Series of 1938




MALACAÑANG PALACE Manila BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES Proclamation No.316 DESIGNATING THE THIRD FRIDAY OF OCTOBER OF EACH YEAR AS NATIONAL CHILD HEALTH DAY As the future of a nation depends to a great measure upon the children of today, and the responsibility for the well-being of the children is a community responsibility as well as an individual duty, and realizing that the celebration of a child health day every year will help arouse public consciousness to this responsibility; Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, do hereby designate the third Friday of October of each year as National Child Health Day, and enjoin all the residents of the Philippines to use this day for the consideration of all public and private measures by which the health of our children may be conserved and advanced. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed. Done at the City of Manila, this fifth day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the third. MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: JORGE B. VARGAS Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation