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FOREWORD 
This report of the work of the Committee on the Animal 
Facilities Survey is preliminary to a more complete examination 
of laboratory animal facilities, space, equipment, personnel 
and training currently being completed by the Institute. The 
report is based on site visits made during the first four months 
of 1961 to fifty-eight nonprofit, nonfederal medical research 
institutions in the United States. A second report, now in pre- 
paration, will include information obtained from nearly 500 
institutions surveyed by a mail questionnaire. 
The ten members of the survey team (Appendix III) and 
the Chairman of the Committee, Dean W. T. S. Thorp of the 
University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, devoted 
much time and energy to the completion of this study, and their 
efforts are gratefully acknowledged by the Institute. 
Dr. William I. Gay, Chief, Animal Hospital Section, National 
Institutes of Health, rendered valuable assistance to the 
Committee in the design of the survey, the questionnaire and 
the final report. The deans and directors of the institutions 
included in the survey were most cooperative and extended many 
courtesies to the site visitors. 
The program was supported by Grant RG-8514 from the 
Division of General Medical Sciences of the National Insti- 
tutes of Health 
