Automobile accidents kill or injure more of our children and teenagers than any single disease that we have in this country.

The traffic death rate among school children has been reduced by nearly one-half.

Our abilities to conquer pain and disease has increased dramatically.

The health of our people is essential to the pursuit of happiness.

Pollution touches us all. We are at the same time polluters and sufferers from pollution.

No vaccine is perfect protection against disease.

They have brought back to us a knowledge of diseases, or they have practically prevented them from ever reaching our shores.

I think by August first, as I recall, they believe a hundred percent of the children from 1 to 9 will be vaccinated.

And there, of course, remains the great problem of rapid production, distribution on the fairest possible basis, and to that problem as Secretary Hobby has said, you and many others are working and contributing to carry the thing forward until there is no more poliomyelitis remaining in the United States.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 216 of the Public Health Service Act (58 Stat. 690)

I also invite the medical profession, the press, the radio, the motion-picture industry, and all organizations 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 in a concerted effort to impress upon the people of the Nation the vital importance to their health and to the welfare of the Nation of a program for the control of cancer and the necessity for their cooperation in such a program.

PLEASE EXTEND my cordial greetings to the members of the fifth annual conference of committees of the World Narcotic Defense Association and my earnest hope that it may be inspired to yet more effective measures to destroy this fearful menace to the well-being of the race.

Miss Lillian D. Wald's untiring efforts in the amelioration of human suffering have rightly earned her the approbation of her fellow-citizens.

To have reduced the number of cases by more than half and deaths by over two thirds, is an impressive example to the rest of the country.

To have secured the immunization of more than half a million children is life saving work of the first magnitude.

It has given convincing proof that the disease can be prevented by the organized application of scientific knowledge.

His warmhearted human sympathy for all mankind resulted in munificent gifts for the advancement of public health, education, housing, and the wide reach of social amelioration.

The public health has apparently never been better than it has been over the past 6 months.