TRANSFUSIONS OF BLOOD

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1930, Page 13

TRANSFUSIONS OF BLOOD

WELLINGTON SERVICE URGED LONDON SYSTEM RECOMMENDED. •'•LIKE PHONING BAKER FOR TZJAF" By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Aug. 27. An appeal for the inauguration of a blood transfusion service in Wellington was made by Dr. A. lennant m an address under the auspices of the British Red Cross Society last night. Dr. Tennant referred to the service in London, where it is possible at a moment’s notice, to get in touch with donors of blood. Boy Scouts Girl Guides, Toe 11, the Y.M.C.A., and other or-raiihsationg were rendering valuable services. All a doctor had to do was to telephone the Red Cross Society, inform it of his requirements, and a few minutes later transfusion was taking service in London," he said, '•has developed to such an extent that it is just like ringing the baker and ordering a loaf of bread. - ’ He could not say how many blood transfusions occurred every month in Wellington, .but he commended to the local Red Cross Society the suggestion that a similar service to that in England be instituted here. In his opinion there was need for it.