WHEREAS, the first World Health Assembly adopted a resolution in July, 1948, suggesting that the 22nd day of July of each year be set aside as œWorld Health Day ;

WHEREAS, the observance of a œWorld Health Day  would arouse public interest in, and support of, the aims of the World Health Organization, of which the Philippines is a member; and

WHEREAS, the health of mankind is one of the factors contributory to world peace, harmony and understanding;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the twenty-second day of July of each year as œWorld Health 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 the City of Baguio this 4th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the third.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary