Cigarette box containing stickers for blood donors
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Cigarette box containing stickers for blood donors to be given out after after a person has given blood a certain number of times. The wooden cigarette box that contains them is split into 11 compartments containing different coloured stickers. 'B.R.C.S. SERVICE' is written on every sticket and different colours are used to denote the number of donations: Red: 1-10 donations; Green: 11-20 donations; Blue: 21-30 donations; Brown: 51-60 donations; Purple: 71-80 donations.
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History
In 1921, Percy Lane Oliver from the Red Cross division in Camberwell, London assisted Kings College Hospital with the search for a volunteer to donate blood to save a sick patient’s life. It was this incident that gave him the idea of setting up a pool of donors who would be willing to give blood at any hospital around the clock – beginning the UK’s first blood transfusion service. The British Red Cross continued its involvement in blood transfusion even after the NHS was established in 1948, ending its involvement in 1987.
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434/27
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Greater London Blood Transfusion Service
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