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ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE
22 EAST 17th STREET
NEW YORK 3, N.Y.

OREGON 5-1069

In a recent letter criticizing the Cooper bill for the humane treatment of laboratory animals, a correspondent of the Monitor stated: "The C.B. + the H.M.A. are identical in that both leave enforcement up to medical research itself —

The Sec of HEW, which necessarily means the NIH + the State Commissioner of Health: This is [crossed out] characteristic [crossed out] of [crossed out] the [crossed out] emotional [crossed out] thinking [crossed out] of [crossed out] the [crossed out] the [crossed out] antivivisectionist, [crossed out] and [crossed out] recalls the catchword of the NAVS, that the Cooper Bell would be "vivisectors regulators themselves." The Secretary of HEW is not " research itself" but a member of the Cabinet. He has never been a medical man, and the jurisdiction of his department is wide. There is no foundation for the statement that the Secretary of H.E.W. "means" the NIH + the S.C. of H, as the is no such provision in the Cooper bill, and the Dept of HEW has not yet made any reports on how it would administer the bill