BLOOD TRANSFUSION
WAR EMERGENCY PLAN. BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY. The British Red * Cross Society is pushing forward with a scheme to ensure ar blood transfusion service in the .event of war. It has been decided to start the construction of an underground concrete store near Chepm, Surrey, from which all the London hospitals could be supplied. An outbreak of war, it is anticipated, would immediately put an end to the society’s present system, by which donors, available in rotation, are sent in person to any hospital where a patient requires transfusion. Not only would many donors on the society’s list be called up for nation service, but the restriction of transport would probably make it difficult for those available to reach the hospitals. •Immediately an emergency arose an appeal would be made for blood donors to go to Cheam. About 200 would probably be required daily. London’s 170 hospitals would telephone their needs each day to the Cheam headquarters. Distribution would be carried out by three lorries.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1938, Page 6
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167BLOOD TRANSFUSION Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1938, Page 6
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