§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the Report of the Director of the Cancer Research Fund shows that during last year 247 specimens of cancer derived from dogs were examined; will he state whether these dogs had been previously inoculated with cancer; and, if so, were such inoculations included in the annual Returns of Experiments on Living Animals.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) The Report, to which I understand the hon. Member to refer, does not state that 247 specimens of cancer in dogs have been examined. I am informed that the 247 specimens consist chiefly of growths and other pathological conditions occurring naturally. The remainder of the specimens were the result of inoculation experiments, and these are included in the annual Return of Experiments on Living Animals for the year ending 31st December, 1903.