WHEREAS, tuberculosis kills or disables more Filipinos than any other human affliction does and brings to our people each year greater economic loss, more grief and more deaths;

WHEREAS, the Philippine Tuberculosis Society is slowly but surely arresting its havoc through medical care and treatment on the one hand and by its effective program of control and prevention through its educational campaign on the other; and

WHEREAS, it is for the benefit of the people themselves that every possible assistance and support, moral as well as material, should be extended to the Philippine Tuberculosis Society to implement its resources vital to its unrelenting crusade against this scourge;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority vested in me by law, do hereby designate the period from August 19 to September 19, 1950, as œAnti-Tuberculosis Month  and authorize the Philippine Tuberculosis Society to conduct a national fund and educational drive during said period. I call upon all citizens and residents of the Philippines, irrespective of nationality or creed, to assist in this humanitarian campaign by giving generously so that we may keep this dreadful, disease under control. I authorize all the treasurers of provincial, city and municipal governments as well as school officials to accept, for the Philippine Tuberculosis Society, voluntary contributions and donations and to issue official recepits therefor.

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 July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary