PROCLAMATION NO. 37, June 25, 1954
DECLARING THE THIRD WEEK OF SEPTEMBER OF EVERY YEAR AS NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH WEEK
WHEREAS, sound mental health is necessary to the
attainment of individual happiness and efficiency, to the establishment of
peace and order, and to the promotion of economic and cultural progress;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of
the Philippines, do hereby proclaim the third week of September of every year
as National Mental Health Week and designate the Philippine Mental Health
Association and the Health Education Association of the Philippines to take
charge of the celebration thereof. I call upon all government and
non-government entities and all residents of the Philippines to lend their
cooperation and support to the observance of the week.
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 25th day of
June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines
By the President:
FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary