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. AT THE STAGE SHOWN HERE, THE FILTRATION OF THE SERUM, CARRIED OUT ON THE GRAVITATIONAL PRINCIPLE, TAKES PLACE. IN THE PICTURE, SERUM IS FLOWING FROM THE UPPER CONTAINER THROUGH THE BACTERIA PROOF FILTER ON THE BENCH INTO A STERILE GLASS CONTAINER ON THE FLOOR. MISS M. KENNEDY IS SEEN OPERATING THE FILTRATION APPARATUS.
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. AT THE COMMONWEALTH SERUM LABORATORIES WHERE BLOOD DONATED AT VARIOUS BLEEDING CENTRES IS COLLECTED AND PREPARED FOR TRANSFUSIONS. ALTHOUGH THE BLOOD IS HANDLED ASEPTICALLY
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. 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. 1943-05-28. TYPICAL FILTERS USED AT THE AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS BLOOD BANK AT THE OLD ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL FOR THE FILTRATION OF THE SERUM. THE SERUM. THE SERUM PASSES THROUGH THE COM
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
