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Experimentation on animals is necessary for medical progress, representatives of the medical profession told members of the city council Tuesday in asking that the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals be permitted to make avail-' able for medical research thej thousands of unclaimed stray dogs which it presently destroys with carbon monoxide gas.
After listening to the appeals; of the medical men, the council! at its weekly conference decided | to hear at 9:30 a. m. next Tues-j day from the opponents of the! proposal that the city rescind a provision in its code which prohibits the SPCA from turning stray dogs over to such institutions as medical schools and hospitals for experimentation.
Even as the council completed its hearing of the doctors and a few other proponents, a motorcade of anti-vivi-sectionists, some of whom are expected to be heard next Tuesday, arrived at City Hall in protest against the proposal. It consisted of seven automobiles bearing signs reading: j "Pet Lovers, Watch SPCA and City Hall'* occupied by approximately 10 women, a man and pet dogs who peeped out of the windows of the cars. Mrs. Jack Lighter, vice-president of the Animal Have n s League, which the group represented, said that its members were opposed to the proposed change in the city law. Dr. A. Sidney Harris, chair-
,man of the department of physi-jt ology of the Louisiana State uni- * versity medical school, told the council members that according j to a report of chief United States < surgeons in the European Thea-j ter of Operations, deaths from\, casualties in this theater inj World War II were only half what they were in World War I. The principal reasons were cited as the greater ability to treat shock cases and the development of new drugs which had come about since World War I, and that "both depended on animal experiment."
He said that medical schools and hospitals here get dogs in "driblets'* from parish and county health units in Louisiana and Mississippi while "15,-000 dogs a year are being murdered to get rid of them and it isn't being done in such a humane manner." E. V. Benjamin, president of the Urban Maes Research Foundation, who also is a member of the SPCA board of directors, told the council that "actually we destroy in excess of 20,000 dogs each year."
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| Title | Dogs are Urged in Experiments: Doctors Say Animals Are Treated Like Humans |
| Contact Information | John P Isché Library - LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans - 433 Bolivar St. New Orleans, LA 70112 ~ Send inquiries to digitalarchives@lsuhsc.edu |
| Subject |
Animal Research |
| Call Number | 1957 p105-106 |
| Description | Newspaper clipping |
| Notes |
Includes photos |
| Publisher |
Times-Picayune |
| Date | 1957-06-12 |
| Type | Image |
| Format | TIFF |
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| Source | John P Isché Library - LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans ~ www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSC_NCC.php?CISOROOT=%2FLSUHSC_NCC |
| Coverage-Spatial |
New Orleans (La.) |
| Coverage-Temporal | 1957 |
| Rights | Use is restricted to IP address of LSUHSC - New Orleans |
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