Proclamation 2277—Cancer Control Month

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas House Joint Resolution 468, 75th Congress, 3d Session, provides:

That the President of the United States is hereby authorized and requested to issue annually a proclamation setting apart the month of April of each year as Cancer Control Month and to invite annually the Governors of the several States and Territories and possessions of the United States to issue proclamations for like purposes. It is requested that such proclamations invite the medical profession, the press, and all agencies and individuals interested in a national program for the control of the disease of cancer by education and other cooperative means to unite during the month in a public dedication to such a program and in a concerted effort to impress upon the people of the Nation the necessity of such a program.

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, pursuant to the above joint resolution, do hereby proclaim the month of April 1938 Cancer Control Month and invite the Governors of the several States and Territories and possessions of the United States to issue proclamations for like purposes. I invite the medical profession, the press, and all agencies and individuals interested in a national program for the control of cancer by education and other cooperative means to unite during the month of April 1938 in a public dedication to such a program and in a concerted effort to impress upon the people of the Nation the necessity of such a program.

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 28th day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.