Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1919 — Form Squad to Sell Blood for Transfusion [ARTICLE]

Form Squad to Sell Blood for Transfusion

Santa Barbara, Cal. —A “blood transfusion squad," composed of physically perfect men and women, to hold themselves available at any time their services are needed, is being formed here. The Santa Barbara County Medical society has issued a call for a dozen volunteers. The merit of the plan, it is pointed out, is that physicians will have names of persons who can be called on immediately in emergency cases, whereas by the old plan valuable time was lost in examining volunteers. When one of the members of the “perfect squad" is called upon to give blood for some patient he or she, as the case may be, will be paid S2O for the red corpuscles given up to save someone else. '