THE BRITISH ARMY BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE

Abstract

The following brief account gives a description of the British Army Blood Transfusion Service from its inception to the present time and shows how big an organization has had to be developed from very small beginnings in order to meet the demands of war in the large number of theaters now existing. The original technical staff, drawn almost entirely from the laboratories of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Middlesex Hospital, were selected before the war, and agreement was obtained for them to mobilize and start work in a west country region as soon as needed. A basic panel of some 5,000 donors was obtained before war broke out. The birth pains of the service were severe, but not protracted. Appropriately, the unit was first accommodated in a vacated maternity ward of a large hospital, which engineers converted into the necessary laboratories in about forty-eight hours; this had to

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