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Show Expended Blood Use Makes Donations Even More Essential An opportunity for southern Utahns to bank In the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Blood Center will be extended in Cedar City on Monday, Mon-day, July 14 from 3 until 8 p. m. in the Elks Lodge and in Parowan Paro-wan on Thursday, July 17 from 3 to 6 p. rq. The ever Increasing demand for blood and blood fractionation makes each visit of the Blood-mobile Blood-mobile more Important than the last. More and more uses are being be-ing found for blood in new methods meth-ods of surgery resulting In the saving of human lives. Some of the requirements for blood donors follow: Who can give bood Just anyone from age 18 to 60; non-pregnant and one year after delivery of full term child; six months after miscarriage; mis-carriage; for those who have had a hisiny of malerla or Infectious In-fectious hepatitis (but no symptoms symp-toms in last six months) their blood is acceptable for fractionation; fractiona-tion; those who have had immunization immu-nization shots for yellow fever may be accepted as donors two weeks after their last shot; on typhoid, typhus, rocky mountain spotted fever, influenza, cholera, diptheria, tetanus and poliomyelitis poliomye-litis shots, donors may be accept-ted accept-ted 21 hours after receiving any of these Injections. The minimum weight requirement is 110 pounds. It is of primary Importance to remember: Make no change In your daily eating habits. Eat your meals at regular hours because be-cause food in the stomach tends to add to the comfort of the donor don-or and does not spoil the blood. The Intervals between blood donations must be eight weeks and not more than five times per year. |