HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 
Additional nonprofessional supervisory 
personnel 
2 
( 7%) 
Additional animal caretakers 
- 11 
(38%) 
Personnel manager 
1 
( 3%) 
Training programs for research staff 
and animal facility staff 
- 4 
(14%) 
Fifty-five institutions replied to the 
question on un- 
filled building and equipment needs. Ten of these (18%) had no 
construction or equipment problems. The remaining 45 (82%) listed 
requirements under this section of the questionnaire. Twenty needed 
new buildings; 7 would like to centralize animal facility operations 
and space. Thirty-nine of the requisites concerned equipment. The 
following listing summarizes equipment needs: 
Cages 10 
Cage racks 2 
Cage washing machines 9 
Autoclaves 7 
Incinerator 1 
Germ- free isolators 1 
X-ray machines 1 
Air conditioning 
equipment 4 
Air filtration 
equipment 1 
Animal disease diagnostic 
equipment 3 
Finally, a total of 60 separate comments concerned 
needs for animal facility space. The following types of space 
were noted: 
Animal holding space 11 
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