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SentM.R. Simmons to A.H. Reed, 9th January, 1959 (DO 35/8640).
9 Jan 1959
Description:'Mr. Reed
Please see (2 & 8) of my draft letter to Delhi & Karachi. I expect the M.R.C. would be interested in this, but I am not sure of the ethics of passing it on to them.
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Mr. Whittaker - Medical Research Council rang. He said that:-
(1) There had been certain undesirable publicity recently about the way monkeys were treated at Shamrock Farms & owned by Lonsdale Ltd. This had been started by a disgruntled ex-employee of Lonsdales who had taken some misleading photos.
In fact part of Shamrock Farms was owned and controlled by Burroughs Wellcome, although it is not intended that this fact should be public knowledge. There was a complete answer to all the charges made & very little harm had been done, but there might be some P.Q.'s on this in the next session.
(2) RSPCA had told Burroughs Wellcome that they thought arrangements should be made for -
(a) examination in India, before embarkation, and painless destruction of all monkeys found unfit to travel,
(b) a vet to accompany each consignment of monkeys in transit
(c) use of monkeys within a few days of arrival in U.K. - i.e. no holding in monkey farms.
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SentM.R. Simmons to H. O'Brien, 14th January, 1959 (DO 35/8640).
14 Jan 1949
Description:'Dear Mr. O'Brien,
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3. We should be grateful if you could take informal soundings of the Indian authorities to find out their attitude and what line they are taking in their reply to the R.S.P.C.A., unless, of course, you feel that even an informal approach might, in the circumstances, encourage the Indians to attach undue weight to the R.S.P.C.A.'s representations.'
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SentMargaret R. Simmons to D.G.R. Bentliff, 14th January, 1959 (DO 35/8641).
14 Jan 1959
Description:'Dear Mr. Bentliff,
I enclose a copy of a letter which the Chief Secretary of the R.S.P.C.A. has sent to the Pakistan Minister of Agriculture about the export of monkeys for the purposes of anti-poliomyelitis research. A similar letter has been sent to the Indian Minister, about which I am writing separately to Mr. O'Brien in New Delhi.
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Recipient ofD.G.R. Bentliff to M.R. Simmons, 29th April, 1959 (DO 35/8641).
29 Apr 1959
Description:'Dear Miss Simmons,
Please refer to your letter EC.1601/51 of 14th January about the R.S.P.C.A.'s representation to the Pakistan Ministry of Agriculture over the export of monkeys for anti-poliomyelitis research.
2. We have made enquiries through the Trade Commission in Dacca; it is of course from East Pakistan that the monkeys were exported. They have heard of no reaction on the part of the Pakistan authorities there to the R.S.P.C.A.'s letter
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4. I enclose a copy of the press handout of the Pakistan Government of January 21st which you may find of interest and which you may think worthwhile passing on to the R.S.P.C.A.'
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Recipient ofW. Lane-Petter to M.R. Simmons, 29th September, 1959 (DO 35/8640).
29 Sep 1959
Description:'Dear Miss Simmons,
You have already heard from Mr. Whittaker of the Medical Research Council, Head Office, that I am to go to India sometime between now and the end of the year, particularly in connection with the shipment of monkeys for laboratory use.
I plan to spend about 3 weeks in India which is not a very long time n a country where things tend to move rather slowly. I would like to make quite sure that while I am there I see the best people concerned in the Indian Government, in order to persuade them to adopt the recommendations for the carriage of laboratory monkeys by air which have recently been published by the British Standards Insitution. These recommendations have been devised by a technical committee of which I was chairman but they owe a great deal to a smaller expert committee previously set up by the Medical Research Council. I was also chairman of this committee.
It would be a great help to me, therefore, if you could suggest who in the High Commissioner's Office in Delhi, could give me the best advice and assistance when I go there. If you would like me to come and see you and talk about this I could certainly arrange to do so.'
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