GOVERNOR SEES CHILD
First Pre-birth Transfusion (X.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, February 14. The Governor-General (Sir Bernard Fergusson) and Lady Fergusson. today saw the Hastings infant, Grant McLeod, the first baby to be given a pre-birth blood transfusion. The child and its parents, Mr and Mrs E. McLeod, flew to Auckland for the official opening of the National Women's Hospital. Sir Bernard Fergusson spoke to Mrs McLeod and met Dr- A. W. Liiey, senior medical research fellow at the post-graduate obstetric and gynaecological school, who pioneered the pre-birth blood transfusion technique. Mrs McLeod, in reply to Sir Bernard Fergusson’s query, said the doctors at the hospital had kept her fully infarmed on what was being done to ensure the baby’s safe delivery. Her son, she said, was now five months old and weighed 131 b 9oz.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30366, 15 February 1964, Page 2
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