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Experiments On Animals (Cancer Research)

Volume 526: debated on Thursday 15 April 1954

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Mr. Peter Freeman

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will publish a table showing the number of experiments on animals for the purpose of cancer research in each year since these records were kept to the latest known date, and indicating the number of each variety of animal, separately; and the total over the whole period.

Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe

The annual totals of experiments on animals for cancer research since 1907, almost all of which were on mice, were as follow:

YearTotal
1907………45,032
1908………40,870
1909………45,182
1910………49,662
1911………41,025
1912………24,870
1913………26,269
1914………22,371
1915………11,657
1916………7,624
1917………6,231
1918………6,027
1919………7,644
1920………6,136
1921………7,359
1922………13,146
1923………14,081
1924………8,083
1925………12,623
1926………15,167
1927………15,275
1928………34,180
1929………20,098
1930………25,259
1931………23,873
1932………32,381
1933………43,281
1934………50,022
1935………29,835
1936………33,507
1937………35,008
1938………35,222
1939………26,936
1940………11,730
1941………15,448
1942………14,300
1943………15,674
1944………21,571
1945………11,430
1946………32,286
1947………31,924
1948………56,585
1949………75,343
1950………78,192
1951………91,410
1952………95,991
1,367,820