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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 781, September 5, 1961 ]

DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM SEPTEMBER 24 TO 30, 1961, AS NATIONAL HEALTH WEEK

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 24 to 30, 1961, as National Health Week.1aшphi1

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

Done in the City of Manila, this 5th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

NATALIO P. CASTILLO
Executive Secretary

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