In view of the importance of sound mental health in the attainment of individual happiness and efficiency, in the establishment of peace and order, and in the promotion of economic and cultural progress, I, Elpidio Qnirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from September 14 to 20, 1953, as National Mental Health Week and designate the Philippine Mental Health Association 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 support and cooperation 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 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., (for Manila, Philippines), this 8th day of August, 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 Assistant Executive Secretary