108 HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 
Dr. Lehman and his colleagues, and with him all the programs to be 
undertaken have been discussed in advance, in all details, and as stated 
in my report, nothing under our act has prevented our fulfilling these 
completely, and to the satisfaction of your colleagues here in 
Washington. 
Mr. Roberts. Is the same program which is in existence in Great 
Britain common to some of the other Commonwealth countries, say, 
for instance, our neighbor to the north, Canada, and perhaps on other 
members of the Commonwealth ? 
Mr. Worden. You are talking about the Cruelty to Animals Act? 
Mr. Roberts. Yes. 
Mr. Worden. My colleague, Major Hume, is an expert on those 
matters and will deal with that question better than I could possibly. 
Mr. Roberts. But it is your opinion that there is no — that the re- 
search as such would not suffer and has not suffered from the fact that 
you have this type of governmental control in the United Kingdom? 
Mr. Worden. Within the United Kingdom and within my own 
experience, it does not, sir. 
Mr. Roberts. What about the cost of the system, do you have any 
estimates or ideas as to cost under this act and what the costs might 
be without the act ? 
Mr. Worden. The actual operational cost — Major Hume may be 
able to provide actual figures — I don’t know. For the United King- 
dom we have six medical men who form the inspectorate. They and 
their chief, and I presume a certain number of administrative people 
to help them, between them cover all that is undertaken in the United 
Kingdom. 
Mr. Roberts. What about the recordkeeping, is that burdensome ? 
Mr. Worden. That is small in the sense that it requires, as Dr. Bern- 
stein said this morning, only the writing into the book of the numbers 
of animals and what you are testing and the date and the certificate. 
Mr. Roberts. How are most of your animals for research supplied ? 
Mr. Worden. In various ways. Some are bred specifically for the 
purpose either within the laboratory or by commercial or other or- 
ganizations. In the case of dogs — we use considerable quantities of 
dogs in my own laboratory — we now buy all these from a pedigree 
breeder. There is no system in England whereby you can use a dog 
that has been impounded, that is not practiced. There are, of course, 
dealers who deal in other animals and so forth. 
But in our experience the reliability of this material is less than 
that of the animal produced by the proper breeder. 
Mr. Roberts. Thank you very much. 
Next witness introduced by Mrs. Stevens is Maj. C. W. Hume, 
secretary general, the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare. 
STATEMENT 0E CHRISTINE STEVENS— Resumed 
Mrs. Stevens. Major Hume is the founder of the Universities Fed- 
eration for Animal Welfare, which is a unique animal protective 
society in that all of its members are either students or graduates of 
universities, and there are many, many biological members; for ex- 
ample, Professor Medawar, the Nobel Prize Medal winner in 1960 
in biology and medicine was the Chairman of their scientific sub- 
committee. 
