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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 618, September 11, 1959 ]

DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM SEPTEMBER 21 TO 27, 1959, AS NATIONAL HEALTH WEEK AND THE LAST DAY THEREOF AS WORLD HEALTH DAY

WHEREAS, the protection and promotion of individual and community health is a prime obligation of organized society;

WHEREAS, in the fulfillment of this obligation, the Government and the private sector composed of practitioners in the medical and related fields and volunteer civic organizations devoted to health have shown exemplary dedication; and

WHEREAS, it is but fitting that the joint efforts of the various public and private health organizations in the protection and promotion of health be brought to the attention of the people;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CARLOS P. GARCIA, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law do hereby declare the period from September 21 to 27, 1959, as National Health Week, and the last day thereof, as World Health Day.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1

Done in the City of Manila, this 11th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

JUAN C. PAJO
Executive Secretary

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