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View from southwest showing back entrance leading to out-station despatch area

tre personnel.

There is a garage in the south of the building for the mobile unit, with facilities for recharging batteries and powering refrigeration units.

On leaving the bleeding room blood, in the form of a bottle and at- tached phial, enters the blood supply area of the building, passing through

Plasma-fractionation laboratory on the first floor

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the grouping laboratory. Here it is labelled by groups and then stored, first in the initial blood store and then in the final blood store, from which it is eventually issued to hospitals.

Blood issue to the General Hospital on a 24-hour basis will be via the supervisors office: blood issue to other hospitals will be via the outstation dis-

patch area opening off the servi yard, which provides parking for th centre's vehicles and mobile collectic

unit.

Processing

The blood processing and resear functions of the building cent! around the serum laboratory, pouri: rooms and cold rooms on the grouil floor and the plasma fractionatio laboratory, freeze drier room and ani natal laboratory on the first floor. T serum group will break down who blood to make serum and reagents fi blood products for the centre and t country and, as the number of donci increases, will expand into the produ tion of the blood fractions and fre dried blood which are being increa ly demanded by hospitals for vario│ purposes or by reason of lack of loc donors.

The head of the centre has li office at the first floor, overlooki ! the entrance hall and adjacent to t ante-natal laboratory, conferen room and secretary and record are From this position he will also contri the plasma fractionation and freez drier areas and supervise research wit animals in the animal room area to t south.

Far East BUILDER, March 191