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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAY 7, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
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 demon--
strated 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. Uncon--
trolled 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 treat--
ment 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 organizations and professionals
to advance the programs of our national effort to dis---
cover 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
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