300 HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 
As things stand, without legislation, there is no effective means of pre- 
venting cruelty to them. H.R. 1937 would, in my opinion, reduce suffering 
in laboratories without hindering sound research using animals. I hope you 
will do your utmost to see that this bill is enacted into law at the earliest 
possible time. 
Very truly yours, 
Chables N. Breed, Jr., M.D. 
New York, N.Y., September 25, 1962. 
Re H.R. 1937. 
Hon. Kenneth Roberts, 
Chairman, Subcommitte on Health and Safety, House Committee on Interstate 
and Foreign Commerce, House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 
Dear Mr. Roberts : I am writing in support of the above bill which provides 
for humane treatment of experimental laboratory animals. 
I am a practicing surgeon, specializing in the field of breast cancer, and am 
keenly interested in cancer research. Through my Adair Fund for Cancer Re- 
search, I support the work of various cancer experimenters, including the Roscoe 
B. Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, of which I am past president and 
honorary chairman of the board. I was for many years a member of the National 
Advisory Cancer Council, and was instrumental in organizing cancer teaching 
programs in our medical schools. 
It is obvious that I am not opposed to animal experimentation, but only to the 
needless suffering to which these animals are subjected, and the atrocious 
conditions under which these poor creatures are kept by certain experimenters. 
I do not see how this bill would in any way hamper or handicap scientific re- 
search. Sir Arthur Porritt, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Eng- 
land, commenting on the British Act of 1876, states : “I think all of us have 
found the Home Office inspectors not only courteous but helpful, and we feel 
that the regulations have, in fact, been an advantage as the antivivisectionist 
does not get the support of the majority of the people. * * * I think it would be 
right to say that we feel it is essential to insure humane consideration for 
laboratory animals and that this is better achieved under some authority than 
if left to the individual.” 
I earnestly ask that you do everything in your power to get this much-needed 
bill speedily enacted into law. 
Yours very truly, 
Frank E. Adair, M.D. 
Mr. Roberts. There are many other resolutions which I will have 
to go over with the staff for the record because we are going to have 
a voluminous record. 
Mr. Rogers of Florida. Mr. Chairman ? 
Mr. Roberts. Yes. 
Mr. Rogers of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I would like to submit a 
statement for the record unless it has already been submitted. 
This is a statement of Mabel E. Crafts, chairman of the Animal 
Welfare Committee of the Florida Federation of Humane Societies. 
Mr. Roberts. Without objection. 
(The statement referred to follows:) 
Statement of Mabel E. Crafts, Chairman of the Animal Welfare Committee 
of the Florida Federation of Humane Societies 
The Animal Welfare Committee of the Florida Federation of Humane Societies 
was organized in 1954. As chairman of this committee since its organization, I 
have become familiar with numerous situations involving the care, use, and hous- 
ing of laboratory animals. 
We herewith offer several examples of firsthand experiences which definitely 
point to the need for legislation setting up mandatory standards for the humane 
treatment of laboratory animals. 
