The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-20. AT THE COMMONWEALTH SERUM LABORATORIES WHERE BLOOD DONATED AT VARIOUS BLEEDING CENTRES IS COLLECTED AND PREPARED FOR TRANSFUSIONS. ALTHOUGH THE BLOOD IS HANDLED ASEPTICALLY THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PROCESS, AN ANTISEPTIC (SOLIUM ETHYL MERCURITHIO-SALICYLATE) IS ADDED TO THE PLASMA AS AN ADDITIONAL SAFEGUARD. MISS M. KENNEDY (RIGHT) WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THIS WORK, IS SEEN BEING ASSISTED BY MISS A. PAINE.
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-20. ONE OF THE LATTER STAGES OF PROCESSING BLOOD PLASMA INTO SERUM AT THE COMMONWEALTH SERUM LABORATORIES, WHERE BLOOD OBTAINED FROM DONORS AT THE VARIOUS BLEEDING CENTRES IS C
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-20. MISS M. KENNEDY OF THE COMMONWEALTH SERUM LABORATORIES, AT WORK ON THE PREPARATION OF BLOOD THAT HAS BEEN DONATED AT VARIOUS BLEEDING CENTRES AND FORWARDED TO THE LABORATOR
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-20. AFTER BOTTLES CONTAINING BLOOD FOR TRANSFUSIONS HAVE BEEN RETURNED FROM THE BLEEDING CENTRES, WHERE THE BLOOD IS EXTRACTED FROM DONORS, TO THE COMMONWEALTH SERUM LABORATORI
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-20. AT THE COMMONWEALTH SERUM LABORATORIES WHERE BLOOD DONATED AT VARIOUS BLEEDING CENTRES IS COLLECTED AND PREPARED FOR TRANSFUSIONS. AT THE STAGE SHOWN HERE, THE FILTRATION O
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-20. THIS PICTURE, TAKEN AT THE COMMONWEALTH SERUM LABORATORIES WHERE BLOOD DONATED AT VARIOUS BLEEDING CENTRES IS COLLECTED AND PREPARED FOR TRANSFUSIONS, SHOWS FIBRIN WHICH HA
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-20. MISS M. KENNEDY OF THE COMMONWEALTH SERUM LABORATORIES IS SEEN WITH A CONTAINER OF PLASMA FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS WHICH HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE BLEEDING CENTES WHERE IT I
