BLOOD TRANSFUSION.
UNSUCCESSFUL SACRIFICE.
EFFORT TO SAVE VICAR'S LIFE.
[from our own correspondent. ] SYDNEY. Nov. 27.
No fewer than 20 former parishioners, including two women, volunteered - their services in an attempt to save the life of the Rev. Thomas McKeon, formerly vicar at. Vermont, Victoria. Twelve months had passed since the clergyman had been at Vermont, but the people of the district, on hearing that he was lying seriously ill in the Caulfield Military Hospital, rushed to his aid. The vicar was suffering from the after-effects of "gassing" during the war period, and he was so weak that there seemed only one hope ■
of saving his lifetransfusion of blood. Nine of the parishioners visited the hospital, and when the tests were . made it was found that one man's blood was eminently suitable, the characteristics being similar to those of the 1 vicar. The transfusion was successfully carried out, but later it was realised that a further supply of blood would be necessary. Eleven other parishioners offered their services. The present clergyman and two women were among the number. A ( Returned soldier proved suitable. The sacrifice, however, was in vain.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18885, 6 December 1924, Page 11
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