Animal welfare

The National Council for Animals' Welfare Week was founded in 1922 for the purpose of instituting an Annual Welfare Week, during which efforts would be made throughout the country to draw attention to the facts of our relationship to animals and the responsibilities we have towards them.

These are annual reports for those Animal Welfare Weeks, as follows.

1926 1927 1937 (two copies) 1938 1941-1943

"Near Human Model for Research", was a pamphlet published by the SSPV, highlighting the use of monkeys and primates in scientific experiments. This pamphlet was revised in April 1990.

Located in Roslin Institute Staff Papers 1993. Part 2.

Located in Roslin Institute Staff Papers 1993. Part 1.

A copy of "News of the Humane Society of the United States", August 1959, Vol. 4, No.3. This edition of the newspaper has a story on the humanitarian society being against the harm of animals in laboratories.

11 newspaper cuttings about the story of Vivisected Jack from various newspaper publications. One article is about the Purple Cross Service for wounded and sick army horses.

Two reports from the North Western Refuge for Destitute Animals, Glasgow, 1937 and 1939.

The reports detail the members of the committee, the number of cases dealt with through the year, and a statement of accounts.

A list of six points arguing for the uselessness of animal experimentation. The document is dated 27th November 1970, and is attributed to Dr Douglas Latto.

An article issued by the Research Defence Society on the notes of the law relating to experiments on animals in Great Britain (the act of 1876). Second edition.

A notice, supplied by the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, which announces the death of their society's Secretary, Leisa Schartau. The obituary, written by Lind-Af-Hageby, details Schartau's life fighting for the rights of animals, and her publication on the matter.