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Mrs. Dunn. We were also impressed with the effort to obtain from 
medical witnesses some expression of how far they would go toward 
realistic Federal legislation to change present really pitiful housing 
and care of research animals which is a primary concern of WARDS, 
of which I am the secretary. 
The neglected animal in Maine is just as weak a link in our research 
program as the abused animal in Texas. National standards will 
require national planning. 
You asked a witness yesterday as to whether there was any place 
in NIH where any attempt to standardize the care of research animals 
had been established. Let me tell you that there is. It is the Cancer 
Chemotherapy Section of the National Cancer Institute. These scien- 
tists recognize the need for uniformly selected and cared for mice. 
We visited some of these installations, and they showed the excellent 
results of centralized planning and provision. We saw the Southern 
Research Institute at Birmingham, Ala., and later WARDS pre- 
sented it with an award for good management at an animal care 
panel convention. 
We have with us a report we wrote on the merits of the cancer 
chemotherapy contract program and will leave some copies. We 
would like its foreword to be included with these remarks, if possible. 
Another arm of the Federal Government which has shown planning 
and provision for its animal care is the Atomic Energy Commission. 
They have also been cited by WARDS for humane housing. 
WARDS has tried for nearly 10 years to induce medical leadership 
to see the value of a single high standard of care for animals. Still, 
there are few standards and even fewer in operation. We have 
even raised funds for humane quarters at two Washington medical 
centers to show our real interest in this matter. We realize that the 
few paragraphs on animal care in the two bills before this committee 
will not accomplish our purpose. There must be an instrument estab- 
lished by law to correct the present useless waste, neglect, and suf- 
fering in this area of research. We favor a Federal institute for 
laboratory animal care to plan and provide for the necessary man- 
power, housing, coordinated information, standards and system. 
Many medical witnesses expressed a need for these things yesterday. 
An institute would stop the present costly disorder on national and 
local levels. 
Last year a representative of WARDS visited Harvard Medical 
School, which is a top recipient of Federal funds, $5,474,712 for 
building facilities during fiscal years 1957 to 1960. In spite of this, 
long-term dogs were kept in dark basement quarters built in 1906 
called the Farm. Even in Boston it would have to be admitted that 
Harvard is inaccurate, that this place is no farm. In the same way, 
many scientists have overlooked completely the modern professional 
needs of their research animals. 
Unfortunately, animal care, except for the Cancer Chemotherapy 
Section, is in the unsupervised section of NIH operations which have 
been frequently criticized. Under the present lack of Federal system 
in this area, it is easy to see why descriptions of cruel suffering and 
neglect are abundantly true. Human care would be as bad under 
the same circumstances. 
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