Blood Group Centre
- Date:
- 1952-1968
- Reference:
- PP/AEM/C.9-13
- Part of:
- Mourant, Arthur Ernest (1904-1994)
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Publication/Creation
Physical description
Biographical note
The Blood Group Centre was established in 1952 following a meeting at the Royal Anthropological Institute held the previous year. It was administered by and housed in the Institute, reporting to the Blood Group Committee. From 1952 to 1962 the Centre was funded by the Nuffield Foundation and bore the name the Nuffield Blood Group Centre. The Medical Research Council then took over responsibility for Financing the Centre, which changed its name to the Anthropological Blood Group Centre.
The aims of the Centre were to collect all available data on the frequency of blood groups in different populations, followed by statistical treatment of this material; to carry out a detailed survey of blood group distribution in the UK based on blood transfusion services; and to give statistical help and information to blood group workers worldwide. Mourant was Honorary Advisor and directed the scientific work.
In September 1965 the Centre was amalgamated into the Medical Research Council's new Serological Population Genetics Laboratory, becoming its Statistical Section. See section D.