DYING FOR LACK OF BLOOD TRANSFUSION
(Received 10 a.m.)
TORONTO. November 25,
A message from Windsor, Ontario, stales that physicians sa» an invalid, Weston Fletcher, is certain to die from a rare streptococcus infection unless somebody who has recovered from the disease can be found in order to give a. blood transfusion.
Nearly 300 volunteers have been listed, but the chief doctor says he doubts whether any of them have recovered from the specific type of disease, because very few ever survive. “One of the few known survivors.” said the doctor, “was one of my patients, a man named Stanford. He recovered six years ago and at present is employed at a Ford Motor Company’s plant in England. It is possible, if a method perfected by Russian chemists for preserving blood is used, that a sample of Stanford’s blood could be rushed across the Atlantic, but it is doubtful if the technique is much used outside Russia.”
Describing the disease, the doctor said; “The germs multiply and the super-valves of the heart break off in clusters, which clog the heart and the blood stream.”
The victim’s parents have offered to defray the expenses of bringing a blood donor to Windsor from anywhere.
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Northern Advocate, 27 November 1937, Page 5
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