§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will state the number of dogs which have been subjected to experiments without anæsthetics at University College, London, from 1st April 1902 to 31st March 1903, by Dr. Bayliss and Professor E. H. Starling respectively.
§ *THE UNDER SECRETARY TO THE HOME OFFICE (Mr. COCHRANE,) Ayrshire, N.The answer is "None." Perhaps I may be permitted to correct an error in the answer which my right hon. friend gave the hon. Member on the 11th May as to the number of dogs used for experiments in the year 1902 at University College. It was stated that in seventy-seven cases experiments were conducted in the Department of Pathological Chemistry without anæsthetics. As a fact, in only four of these seventy-seven cases were anæsthetics not used.