For and against experiments on animals : evidence before the Royal commission on vivisection.
- Stephen Paget
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: In copyright
Credit: For and against experiments on animals : evidence before the Royal commission on vivisection. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![SIR JAMES RUSSELL Sir James Russell, LL.D., F.R.C.P. Edin., November 7, 1906 Sir James Russell, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and sometime Lord Provost and Lord Lieutenant of Edinburgh, stated that he had been Assistant Inspector since 1890. . . .. Asked his opinion as to the present administration of the Act, he answered, I think the Vivisection Act has been worked with extreme care, and with a strictness greatly surpassing that used in the administration of any other Act with which I have been concerned. The foUowing questions were put and answered : Q (Sir William Collins) I think you had some in- structions from the late Dr.. Poore, who was at one time Chief Inspector]—4. Yes. ^ . 0 What were they?-^. When I took office first, he wrote to me to tell me that I was to visit registered places about three times a year ; but he expressly said that I was not expected to act as a detective. In practice, some registered places have been visited much more frequently. Last year I sent in reports of 145 visits. Q. What is the number of registered places within your purview?—i. There are 38. _ Q. Have you been instructed to make surprise visits ?- A. Never. . c Q Do you, as a matter of fact, give notice of your intention to visit Very rarely. It does not suit my own convenience to give notice. In former times, I was really so busy that I could not have held the office if I had had to make appointments. I just go when it suits myself ; and I often do not know when and where I am gomg. It happens that I find I am free for a whole day or half a day, and I use it for inspection.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21503096_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
