Proclamation No. 407

DECLARING THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER OF EVERY YEAR AS PHILIPPINE MEDICINE DAY.

WHEREAS, national progress and prosperity depend to a large extent upon a healthy citizenry; and

WHEREAS, to produce a healthy citizenry, it is necessary that the masses realize the importance of availing of the services of the medical profession, the mission of which is to safeguard, maintain and promote the health of the people;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby proclaim the fifteenth day of September of every year as the Philippine Medicine Day.

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

Done in Honolulu, Hawaii (for Manila, Philippines), this 2nd day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO

President of the Philippines

By the President:

MARCIANO ROQUE

Acting Executive Secretary