BLOOD DONORS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 85, 8 October 1945, Page 7

BLOOD DONORS

CHANGES OF ADDRESS

SERVICE HANDICAPPED

The annual report of the Wellington branch of the National Blood Transfusion Service again records a year of community service, the beneficial results of which are but* coldly conveyed by the statistics included, yet these figures will be greatly gratifying to the 1787 members enrolled and active when the report was written: of these 1174 were women and girls and Gl3 men and youths. v The results of 1367 transfusions, the report stated, were:— Good to excellent, 1306, or 95.54 per cent.

No improvement, 10, or .73 per cent. Temporary improvement, but followed by death, 51, or 3.73 per cent. IVlany who would otherwise have succumbed or at best would have suffered long illness were, through the unselfish co-operation of blood donors, brought back to health.

The report makes a note that membership is down on last year, because of numerous transfers out of Wellington and also because of failure to notify change of address. The membership is not adequate to meet still increasing demands, and more donors are asked for: those who change their addresses are asked to notify the honorary secretary, P.O. Box 25, Te Aro, and to give also their telephone numbers. Headquarters of the service are at the office of the Wellington centre of the St. JoWh Ambulance Association.

During the year institutions which drew upon, the blood bank or had the service of donors otherwise were the Wellington, Hutt, Lewisham, Bowen, Woodleigh, Hobson Street, and Thorndon Hospitals, the Alexandra and St. Helens Obstetric Hospital, the Home of Compassion, and private residences and surgeries. All told, 2000 donors were supplied.