BLOOD DONORS.
A RED CROSS SERVICE
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.
Received 1.25 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. 25. A blood transfusion operation for the benefit of a broken legged victim of the Seven Oaks railway disaster discloses the existence of a Rod Cross Society blood transfusion service, which has made available 350 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 in a bottle and transfused. Meanwhile the donor was fed and recuperated. The secretary explains that the whole system is impersonal. and. the names of donors are never given. Their status _ included professional men. labourers, independent ladies, and charwomen. —“Sydney Sun” Cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 August 1927, Page 9
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