BLOOD DONORS' RECORD

Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3195, 25 June 1932, Page 1 (Supplement)

BLOOD DONORS' RECORD

10,000 CALLS FOR TRANS-

FUSION.

SOCIETY'S UP-TO-DATE SLOGANS.

The chairman of the British Red Cross Society, speaking at a social meeting of the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, said the story of the service was one of steady and consistent purpose. He was told that up to the present nearly 10,000 calls had been received, and each year showed an increase on the year before. The first man to give forty blood transfusions was presented with a baato his medal; and the first woman to attain twenty blood transfusions was also presented with a bar to her medal. NOT HEROES. In making the presentations, Sir Arthur Stanley congratulated all concerned with the Service on the valuable work they were doing. "I do not want to describe blooddonors as heroes,," Sir Arthur said, " for I am assured by my friends in the medical profession that a little blood-letting now and then, as was a habit a century or two ago, has a real tonic effect. At the same time, whether it is good for them or not, I think we must recognise the social service these men and women are doing who have volunteered to give their blood, not for the sake of their own kith and kin, but .for utter Strang6rs UP-TO-DATE BODY. "The Blood Transfusion Service, I am glad to see, is a really up-to-date body. It has its own slogans. Here are three of. them:— You want the best blood—we have it. Try our famous red and white corpuscles. Families-supplied—day or night. "The value of the work of the Blood Transfusion Service is now recognised by the Medical Research Council,, and we now have a medical officer at St. Bartholomew's Hospital for testing and classifying prospective 1 volunteers."