GIVERS OF BLOOD
TRANSFUSION FOR INJURED
.GROUP. TO AID SUFFERERS
System Revealed in England
By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Received 11,24 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. A BLOOD-TRANSFUSION operation for the benefit of a ; broken-legged victim of the Sevenoaks railway disaster discloses the existence of a Red Cross Society blood-trans-fusion service which has available 450 people graded into blood groups willing to submit to transfusion to assist sufferers'.
A blood donor promptly reached the hospital in response to a telephone call from the society, to which he returned in five hours, reporting that everything was satisfactory. His blood had been drawn off Into a bottle and transfused.
In the meantime the donor fed and recuperated. The secretary explains that the whole system is impersonal. The names of the donors are never given. Their status ranges from professional men to labourers, Independent women, and charwomen.—Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 133, 26 August 1927, Page 1
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