BLOOD TRANSFUSION

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 75, 21 December 1921, Page 4

BLOOD TRANSFUSION

A SURGEON’S SUGGESTION

Bv Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, December 20,

At an inquest touching tho death of a little boy as the result of a fall from a tram, evidence was given 'by Dr. Thompson, senior house surgeon at the Christchurch Hospital, regarding the child's injuries. He stated that after an operation had been performed it was decided to fry blood transfusion, us the patient did not rally. The father of the child volunteered for the purpose, and after a test had been carried cut some of his blood wns transferred to the child. In France and,the war zone blood transfusion had been, carried out very successfully; suitable soldiers volunteered, had their blood tested, and were grouped according to suitability for transfusion in urgent need. If a system such as that were in vogue in Christchurch, a doctor could at. a moment’s notice obtain what is known ns a “universal donor.” who would probably have to he retained by the Public Health Department, and who. when required, could give Wood needed without much inconvenience to himself. ,jnd bo recompensed by tho Department. Tho need of Wood trnn=fn»ion often arose, nnd it involved a fairlv tedious test between tho blood of the donor nnd recipient before it could bo done.