Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phillips Brooks House Blood Drive, which has been contributing 200 pints of Harvard blood to the Red Cross each term for free distribution in Massachusetts hospitals, is 50 pints short of its quota this fall...
During the war, the need for blood plasma was given a great deal of publicity. Today, thousands of lives are still being saved by plasma, only the fact is not so widely publicized. Inadequate supplies, however, have sent the price up to around 25 dollars for plasma equivalent to one pint of whole blood, and often a transfusion will run from 15 to 30 pints. To alleviate the situation, and to provide free plasma for charity cases, the Red Cross is asking for volunteer blood donations from colleges and other organizations. On top of that, just one donation to this...
Additional Harvard and Cambridge donations are needed in the drive, Frederick, M. Fialkow '51, chairman of the blood drive, announced last night. With only three days left before blood starts flowing, PBH is 75 pints shy of its 200-pint goal. Because of the special visit of the health experts, Cambridge residents have been invited to join in the donations...
Harvard's semi-annual blood donations at Phillips Brooks House will serve as a field of study for American Public Health Association members, who will survey proceedings Monday and Tuesday to learn Massachusetts methods, considered by the Association as among the most advanced in the world...
...Blood collected goes to a Red Cross bank for those who need blood transfusions and cannot afford the high price of blood...