Proclamation 5823 --
National Safe Kids Week, 1988
By
the President of the
A
Proclamation
During
National Safe Kids Week parents, relatives, teachers, and everyone responsible
for the care and safety of children should take notice of the many ways in
which we can help youngsters avoid accidents and grow up safely. Children
themselves should also become increasingly aware of ways to protect themselves
and other young people. Each year accidents take a tragic toll of perhaps 8,000
young lives lost and 50,000 children disabled. We need to recall that we can
prevent the majority of these incidents -- and we need to do as much as we can
about it, in homes, schools, places of work and recreation, on the highways,
and throughout our communities.
Much
has been done already. Americans continue to take responsibility by exercising
extra care around the house, as well as by using items such as infant and
toddler car seats and seat belts, smoke detectors, flame-retardant clothing,
and child-proof packaging; and emergency medical services are developing still
greater capacities in the prevention of death and of serious aftereffects of
injury.
As
more and more of us understand that accidental injuries are avoidable, and as
we act accordingly, we will substantially reduce this major source of death,
disability, and injury to our hope for the future -- our ``safe kids.'' That is
a goal to which we can all look forward.
The
Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 240, has designated the period of May 16
through
Now,
Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the
In
Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of May, in the
year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the
Ronald
Reagan
[Filed with the Office
of the Federal Register,