Mr. Creech Jonesasked the Home Secretary how many experiments were performed at the Bradford Bacteriological Laboratory during the years 1937 and 1938; for what purposes the experiments were performed; and what kinds of animals were used in the experiments?
§ Mr. PeakeThe number of experiments on living animals performed at the Bradford Bacteriological Laboratory was 1,750 in 1937 and 1,690 in 1938. The experiments, which all consisted of simple inoculations, were performed for the diagnosis of disease, the detection of the tubercle bacillus in milk and the anthrax bacillus in wool and hair, and (in two cases) for the purposes of a coroner's inquest. The animals used were rabbits, guinea pigs and mice.