WHEREAS, cancer being the cause of the death of a great number of people in the Philippines, its prevention and eventual eradication are matters of immediate and common concern;

WHEREAS, the Philippine Cancer Society has successfully spear-headed the move in this direction through the work and activities of its diagnostic and detection center which has served hundreds of those afflicted with the disease since the organization of the Society two years ago;

WHEREAS, the progress which the Society has achieved in the pursuit of its objectives is also due to its efforts to disseminate information on the disease and its prevention and control; and

WHEREAS, the Society has not been able to meet fully the public demand for its services for lack of funds for the further improvement and expansion of its work and activities;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority vested in me by law, do hereby authorize the Philippine Cancer Society to conduct a national educational, membership, and fund campaign from December 15, 1958, to February 15, 1959. I call upon all citizens and residents of the Philippines, irrespective of nationality, race, or creed, to assist in this humanitarian campaign by giving generously of their means so that it may be a complete success.

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 24th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the thirteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

JUAN C. PAJO
Executive Secretary