BLOOD TRANSFUSION.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2004, 21 December 1921, Page 4

BLOOD TRANSFUSION.

(Per Press Association.) At the inquest touching: the death' of a little boy as a result of a fall from a tram, evidence was given by Dr Thompson, senior house surgeon at Christchurch Hospital, regarding the child's injuries. He stated that after the operation had been performed it was decided to try blood transfusion. As the patient did not rally, the father of the child volunteered, and after a test had been carried out some of his blood was trans-, ferred to the child. In Franco and the war zone blood transfusion had' been carried out very successfully. Suitable soldiers had volunteered* and had their'blood tested, and were grouped according to suitability for; transfusion in urgent need. If a system such as that were in vogue in Christchurch a doctor could at a mo-' ment's notice, obtain what is known as a "universal donor," who would * probably have to be retained by the Public Health Department, and who,, when required, could give the blood needed without much inconvenience to himself, and be recompensed by the Department. The- need of blood transfusion often arose, and it in- . volved a fairly tedious test between the blood of the donor and the recipient before it could be done.