§ 34. Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Mooreasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in every case in which a licence is granted under the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876, for the performance of an experiment involving death from cancer, the subject of the experiment is required to be fully under narcotics throughout the painful stages of the disease.
§ Mr. EdeIn most experiments on cancer research the animal is not required 2164 to be under any form of anaesthesia, except where operative procedures more severe than inoculation are concerned. If however it is found at any time to be suffering severe pain which is likely to endure it must forthwith be painlessly killed.
§ Mr. Emrys HughesDoes that apply to Government-conducted radio activity experiments on the 250 monkeys which were brought here?