DONORS OF BLOOD
RECORD OF GOOD SERVICE
For the twelve months ended March, 314 calls were received for donors of blood by the Wellington branch of the National. Blood Transfusion Service. In seven years the total calls received have been 1127. There are now 204 male and 64 female members of the organisation.
"In recent years blood transfusion has come to be recognised as a surgical practice of great importance," states the report of the branch, to be presented to the annual meeting on May 31. "It has been discovered that in certain cases of hemorrhage and pernicious anaemia, the simple operation of blood transfusion is often effective in saving life, and further, that a patient too weak to stand a necessary operation - may be sufficiently strengthened by an infusion of new blood to undergo it with perfect safety. The service represents an attempt to organise a permanent number of blood donors from which every case of real urgency can be met. The service is essentially an emergency one entirely voluntary. The donors accept no fee or reward of any kind."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 11
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181DONORS OF BLOOD Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 11
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