PROCLAMATIONS-APR. 16, 1948 Recommendation for medical examina- tion, etc., for children entering school. Request for special consideration by Na- tional Health Assem- bly. Health Day; and I invite all parents, doctors, nurses, teachers, and all others who are interested in child welfare to cooperate in a nation-wide effort, beginning on that day, to improve the health of children of school age. I recommend as a first step that practical plans be developed to obtain thorough medical and dental examinations and treatment if necessary for every child entering school for the first time in the fall of 1948, to the end that all correctible defects found in the health of these children shall have been removed or placed under treatment by the close of the school year. In order to give impetus to this effort, I request the National Health Assembly, meeting by invitation of the Federal Security Adminis- trator in Washington from May 1 to 4, to give special consideration to the health needs of children of school age. 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 16th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-second. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: ROBERT A LOVETT Acting Secretary of State. NATIONAL FARM SAFETY WEEK, 1948 April 16, 1948 [No. 2779] Observance of week commencing July 25 1948, as National Farm Safety Week. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS needless hazards on the farms of our Nation continue to cause thousands of accidents each year which could be prevented by a positive safety program; and WHEREAS these accidents, which annually cause some 18,000 farm residents to lose their lives, constitute an unnecessary and tragic waste of human life; and WHEREAS the reduction of accidents to a minimum cannot be achieved without the vigilance and efforts of those who are endan- gered: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the Nation to observe the week commencing July 25, 1948, as National Farm Safety Week. I urgently request each member of every American farm fam- ily to accept responsibility for eliminating at least one possible source of accidents during that week. I also ask all organizations and persons interested in farm life and welfare to join in a concerted attack upon these menaces to the lives and happiness of American farmers and their families. 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 16th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-second. By the President: ROBERT A LOVETT Acting Secretary of State HARRY S TRUMAN 1498 [62 STAT.
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