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 PROCLAMATIONS-NOV. 18, 23, 1940 Pan American Avi- ation Day. Designation of De- cember 17, 1940, and December 17 of each succeeding year as. NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate December 17, 1940, the anniversary of the first successful flight of a heavier-than-air machine, and December 17 of each succeeding year as Pan American Aviation Day, and do hereby call upon all officials of the Government, the Governors of the forty-eight States, our possessions, and the people of the United States generally to observe with appropriate ceremonies this day as Pan American Aviation Day. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this 18" day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: SUMNER WELLES Acting Secretary of State. PAN AMERICAN HEALTH DAY November 23, 190 [No. 24471 Preamble. Pan American Health Day. Designation of De- cember 2 of this and of each succeeding year as. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Fourth Pan American Conference of National Directors of Health, held in Washington in May 1940, adopted a resolution recommending "that a 'Health Day' be held annually in the countries of the Pan American Union"; and WHEREAS the National Health Authorities of the American Republics have agreed upon the second day of December, 1940, as the date for the first celebration of Pan American Health Day, inas- much as this is the anniversary of the opening date of the First Pan American Sanitary Conference, in 1902, marking the beginning of inter-American cooperation in one of the fields most important to progress, civilization, and the general well-being-that of Public Health; and WHEREAS the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau and the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service have requested that the United States Government and the people render their fullest cooperation and support to this new demonstra- tion of the unity of interests and ideals of the countries of the Western Hemisphere: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, do hereby designate the second day in December of this and of each succeeding year as Pan American Health Day, and do hereby call upon the citizens of our country to celebrate the day appropriately, do invite similar action on the part of the Governors of the several States, Territories, and island posses- sions of the United States, and, in order that our people may become better informed concerning the importance of Pan American cooper- ation in the field of public health and of the work which has been and is being done in this field, do invite the medical, sanitary, dental, pharmaceutical and nursing professions, the scientific groups, all organs of opinion, including the press, radio, and the motion picture industry, and all agencies and individuals interested in health, and 2766 [54 STAT.

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