BLOOD TRANSFUSION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 13 October 1926, Page 6

BLOOD TRANSFUSION

OPERATIONS ON CIIIKDh'KN

By Telegraph.- Special to "The Mail.")

CIIIMSTCmiKCII, This Dav

The blood transfusion operation on a child imlv 36 hours old, which was report e dby cable Iron, llobart, is regard ed by a Chrislchureh medical man as a very remarkable case. Injections ol blood into the muscles of babies Up to Unco days old, said the doctor, were made fairly frequently, but it- was very unusual to make transfusion of blood into the veins of a young baby. The (able message stall's thai the llobart case is (lie youngest, age recorded where blood transfusion had been died successfully, the previous reported record being of a child of six years; but there bad been two cases of such operations being performed in Christehurch <m children under thai age. Some months ago a little child named Neil Dodge, only sixteen months old, ran on to the road on Peak Avenue and was run over by a water cart. lie was taken to the Public Hospital when alinn-st dead and the injured Lg amputated and the blood transfusion operation performed. There was no doubt the blood transfusion saved the child's life. A similar operation was also successfully performed on another Christehurch child two and a half vears old.