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The original documents are located in Box 35, folder "National Arthritis Month" of the
William J. Baroody Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 35 of the William J. Baroody Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
THE UNITED HHL
AO
SEAL
UNITED
National Arthritis Month, 1975
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Arthritis, the oldest known chronic disease, is still the Nation's greatest
crippler. This disease and related rheumatic disorders afflict more than
20 million people in the United States, at an annual cost of about $4
billion, and are exceeded only by heart disease as the most common
chronic illness in the country today.
Recognition of this major public health problem and determination
to combat it effectively have been demonstrated through the passage of
the National Arthritis Act of 1974 by the United States Congress, which
I was pleased to sign earlier this year. As this legislation makes plain, the
total cost of arthritis must be counted not only in terms of dollars, but
of human suffering and disability. Uncontrolled arthritis significantly
decreases the quality of American life and has a negative economic,
social, and psychological impact on the families of those afflicted.
We have learned a great deal through governmentally and privately
supported research. Yet this disorder is not fully understood and it is not
adequately controllable. We must meet the critical need for new research
ideas and studies upon which advances in the area of arthritis treatment
and prevention can be based. Our goal continues to be the eventual
elimination of arthritis as a cause of human suffering and dire expense
to our Nation.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of May, 1975,
as National Arthritis Month. I urge the people of the United States and
educational, philanthropic, scientific, medical and health care organiza-
tions and professionals to advance the programs of our national effort to
discover the cause and cures of arthritis and other rheumatic diseases
and to alleviate the suffering of victims of these disorders.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
seventh day of May, 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
PREST OF OF THE STATES THE UNITED
SEAL
National Arthritis Month, 1975
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Arthritis, the oldest known chronic disease, is still the Nation's greatest
crippler. This disease and related rheumatic disorders afflict more than
20 million people in the United States, at an annual cost of about $4
billion, and are exceeded only by heart disease as the most common
chronic illness in the country today.
Recognition of this major public health problem and determination
to combat it effectively have been demonstrated through the passage of
the National Arthritis Act of 1974 by the United States Congress, which
I was pleased to sign earlier this year. As this legislation makes plain, the
total cost of arthritis must be counted not only in terms of dollars, but
of human suffering and disability. Uncontrolled arthritis significantly
decreases the quality of American life and has a negative economic,
social, and psychological impact on the families of those afflicted.
We have learned a great deal through governmentally and privately
supported research. Yet this disorder is not fully understood and it is not
adequately controllable. We must meet the critical need for new research
ideas and studies upon which advances in the area of arthritis treatment
and prevention can be based. Our goal continues to be the eventual
elimination of arthritis as a cause of human suffering and dire expense
to our Nation.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of May, 1975,
as National Arthritis Month. I urge the people of the United States and
educational, philanthropic, scientific, medical and health care organiza-
tions and professionals to advance the programs of our national effort to
discover the cause and cures of arthritis and other rheumatic diseases
and to alleviate the suffering of victims of these disorders.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
seventh day of May, 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
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
May 6, 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MARGUERITE McAULIFFE
The President has signed a Proclamation entitled:
"National Arthritis Month, 1975"
(Month of May 1975)
Rodul D. Linder
D.Linder
Robert D. Linder r.