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Digitized from Box 7 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 3, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
AMERICAN HEART MONTH, 1975
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
An estimated 28.5 million Americans suffer from some
form of heart and blood vessel disease. These diseases
cause more than one million deaths each year. Approximately
twenty-five percent of these deaths occur among persons
under age 65.
Although heart and blood vessel diseases still account
for slightly more than half of all deaths each year in the
United States, death rates from these disorders declined
over the five-year period 1968-1973 (the most recent year
for which reliable statistics are available).
This decline did not just happen. It has been achieved
through the application of improved methods of prevention,
diagnosis, and treatment that has grown out of an intensive
and sustained research effort.
Over the years, two agencies have been the prime movers
in the Nation's assault on the cardiovascular diseases.
One is the National Heart and Lung Institute, an agency
of the Federal Government; the other is the American Heart
Association, a voluntary health organization that draws its
operating funds from private contributions. For more than
25 years, the two organizations have worked hand-in-hand
toward common goals: to search for and apply new or
improved methods of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
for cardiovascular disorders; to support the training of
research and clinical personnel in the cardiovascular
field; to provide community service to victims of
cardiovascular diseases; and to carry out programs of
information and education on cardiovascular topics for
health professionals and for the general public.
To encourage continuation of this combined assault
on the cardiovascular diseases, the Congress has requested
the President to issue annually a proclamation designating
February as American Heart Month.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of
February 1975, as American Heart Month. And I invite the
Governors of the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
and the officials of other areas subject to the jurisdiction
of the United States, to heed the nationwide problem of
heart and blood vessel diseases. Our support of programs
to prevent premature death from cardiovascular diseases
is essential to combat this leading menace to the Nation's
health.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
third
day of February , in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred seventy-five, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the one hundred ninety-ninth.
GERALD R. FORD
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