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animals are maintained in these quarters.. The remaining two- 
thirds are held in departmental quarters under the control of 
individaul investigators. 
Many institutions have "animal facility committees." 
Membership is drawn from those departments using most of the 
animals. The committee acts as an advisory body to the Dean 
and to the director of a central facility; or in some instances 
where there is no professional director it manages the opera- 
tion of the animal colonies. In the latter instance the chair- 
man of the committee is the de-facto director of the animal 
facilities. 
The experimental and test animal quarters in the 
eight hospitals surveyed generally were under the jurisdiction 
of the department of pathology (department of laboratories, 
experimental animal department) , with the department chief 
acting as the operating head of the animal facility. Animal 
colonies were maintained in more than one department in only 
a few of the hospitals. 
Five of the eight veterinary schools visited have 
decentralized animal quarters under departmental control. In 
two schools the Departments of Pathology and Bacteriology main- 
tain facilities which apparently function as central units for 
all departments. One school provides separate departmental 
facilities but also has a "centralized" animal farm facility 
directly under the Office of the Dean. 
The administration of the animal quarters in 5 pri- 
vate laboratories also varies. Two laboratories have separate 
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