Life Blood

This book describes the Transfusion Services during the Second World War and was written at the time to show the British public why it was so important for the country to donate blood. It gives encouragement to the public when it says, 

"Before this world war is over, many thousands more must make their gift of blood. One out of every ten men wounded will need blood given by civilians in Britain; and thousands of lives will be saved." 


It also alludes to the progress made when it says, 

"When the fighting is finished, the gift of life blood will remain. Just as mankind will benefit, on every day of peace, from penicillin, the sulphonamide drugs and other great advances in medicine which have been intensively developed in the stress of war, so the transfusion services will ensure that mothers and babies, workers injured in pit, field, factory, and street, who once would have died, will now live"