MOISTEN gummed EDGES AT TOP AND BOTTOM AND APPLY TO WINDOW 1951 Use in Peacetime In peacetime it enables doctors to learn immediately the blood types of injured persons so they can administer treatment without delay. In a large percentage of serious accidents blood transfu¬sions are necessary. In the Weber county program j each person's blood type is tattooed under his left arm with a handy little electrical device that does a quick, painless job. The imprint is there to stay. This is considered much better than having the type- noted on a dog-tag, which most people would forget to wear most of the time, or on a card which likely would get lost. A very small percentage of the Weber county residents have objected to the tat¬tooing. The acceptance of this method has been much greater than was expected. No Infection Cases In some parts of the nation tat- tooing has been objected to on the grounds that it might be the means of spreading infection. Drs. E. D. Zeman and Ralph C. Ellis, Ogden pathologists, heading the committee in charge of the Weber program, say they have had no cases of infection since the typing started in that county. Strict observance of the sanitary rules which all good physicians follow has eliminated ,this danger. The Weber county program' also seems to have answered the ob¬jection raised by certain medical men in the armed forces to mass blood typing programs, namely, that they are subject to too high a These Ogden nurses and technicians constitute a blood typing team now engaged in the campaign of Weber County Medical society to have large numbers of persons' blood typed. From left, Mrs. Ruth The technique of tattooing blood type is demonstrated here by Nurse Mamma Holmes at Thomas D. Dee Memorial hospital, with August Paoli of St. Benedict's. In actual practice, job is done by physicians. Orlob, Mrs. Margaret Jones, St. Benedict's hospital; Miss Thelma Given, Mrs. Milder Tonks, Thomas D, Dee Memorial hospital. The latter is taking blood from a citizen's finger for the others to type. FOR STATE, NATION Weber Blood Setup Viewed as Model By William C. Patrick The Weber County Medical so¬ciety is carrying on a blood typ¬ing program as a defense measure that may prove to be a model not only for Utah communities but for the nation. In the few weeks it has been operating, nearly 1000 people have been typed, and so far wily the smaller towns have been^ cov¬ered. When Ogden city itself is tackled by the typing teams the number is expected to soar to several times this figure. With the-Cooperation of physi¬cians,'" nurses, the American Red Cross and technical personnel from Thomas D. Dee Memorial and St. Benedict's hospitals, teams have been set up and procedures adopted whereby 150 persons per hour can be typed. Delighted With Response Those in charge are delighted at the response of citizens in Huntsville, Eden, Liberty and Plain City, and expect the same enthusiastic support when the pro¬gram gets under way in Ogden in the near future. Persons of all ages are among those whose blood has been studied by the experts, and it has not been an uncommon sight to observe en¬tire families present themselves for typing. So far children under a year have not been typed. Dr. J. G. Olson, state coordinator for medical services, Utah civil defense counsel, points out that blood typing is a valuable form of ; personal defense in peace or war. In the event of disaster it would provide a "walking blood bank" j on which to draw for supplies of blood to treat the injured. percentage of error. Dr. Ellis, who had personal experience with army typing during the last war, ex-plains that the error then was due to inadequately trained tech¬nicians and poor typing serum. With highly trained personnel and use of a more potent serum, the Weber county program1 is achiev¬ing a high degree, of accuracy. The typing done by the travel¬ing teams is checked by sending each tenth blood sample to a hos¬pital laboratory for study and comparison.