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SentW.W.S. Sharpe to Sir Bennett Hance, 13th April, 1955 (DO 35/8639).
Description:'Dear Sir Bennett,
You were kind enough to offer to help us to persuade the Indian authorities to re-open the issuing of export licenses for rhesus monkeys.
Yesterday I heard that certain firms such as Parke Davis and Eli Lilly were getting licenses for exportation to America of monkeys for poliomyelitis work. Our information came from B.O.A.C., and the officer who gave it added that if the M.R.C. and ourselves had personal representatives in New Delhi who would push our case as energetically as the Americans did theirs, he thought that licenses would be forthcoming.
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Recipient ofW. Lane-Petter to Col. W.W.S. Sharpe, 23rd March, 1955 (DO 35/8639).
23 Mar 1955
Description:'Dear Sharpe,
I understand from Press Reports, that the Indian Government are introducing a system of licensing, to control the export of monkeys from India. According to these reports, exporters will only be granted licenses if the monkeys are required for medical and scientific reports, and are handled and transported in a proper and humane way. In view of the unsatisfactory conditions of some of the consignments of monkeys which have recently been shipped out of India, we naturally welcome any such system which would have the effect of ensuring the supplies of well-treated and healthy monkeys for legitimate purposes, and at the same time of cutting out less satisfactory shipments.
I have myself found out a good deal about the actual methods of air transport, and am satisfied that the major air companies, and especially B.O.A.C., wish to do everything possible to ensure the proper transport of monkeys.
Laboratories in this country will, I know, wish to offer every help that they can to the Indian Government in order to make their licensing system effective. It would help us if you could:- (1) Obtain from Indian sources any information available about proposed conditions of granting licenses. (2) Convey to the Indian Authorities our desire to give them any help in our power in this connection, e.g. by recommending an approved form of travelling crate; by advising on the quality of shipments of different exporters when they arrive in this country; and in any other way; (3) Convey to the Indian Authorities the special importance at the present time of obtaining sufficient monkeys to further current research, especially on the production and testing of Poliomyelitis Vaccine. The problem of producing such a vaccine appears to be on the verge of solution, and large numbers of monkeys will be required, not only for its production, but also for large scale field trials. A hold-up, therefore, in supplies of monkeys would be particularly serious.
Anything that you can do to help will be much appreciated. I am writing not only on behalf of this Bureau, but also on behalf of the Medical Research Council to whom I am sending a copy of this letter, and on behalf of the majority of monkey users in this country.'
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