OVER 2000 OFFER BLOOD TO SUFFERER
(Received 10 a.m.) TORONTO, November 27,
A message from Windsor, Ontario, says that more than 2000 persons, ineluding one from England, offered ... blood for Mr Weston Fletcher, who is suffering from a rare disease. In the meantime, a second patient, Mr Robert Schaeffer, suffer- ■ ing from the same disease, was ■"' discovered, but along the flood of volunteers was one whose blood could be used To treat Mr Schaeffer, and a transfusion was performed to-night.
Blood for Mr Fletcher was donated by Mr Ernest van Sickle, aged 40, a Canadian war ace, and was transferred to Mr Fletcher. ! " Offer From England.
Mr, Sickle contracted what is believed to have been the same infection as Mr. Fletcher after his aeroplane was shot down in France in 1915.
Mr Fletcher did not immediately respond to the transfusion and the result will not be known for several days.
' Mr. Samuel Stanford, of London, who was once treated for the disease by Mr. Fletcher’s doctor, telephoned offering ..to come to Windsor immediately. He was advised to wait in the meantime.
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Northern Advocate, 29 November 1937, Page 7
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