Rupert+Blue

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**Rupert Blue** ( 30 May 1868 – 12 April 1948)

Rupert Blue was born in Richmond County, North Carolina, and was raised in South Caroline. He attended the University of Virginia from 1889-1890. He earned his M.D from the University of Maryland in 1892. He was first associated with the Public Health Service (PHS) or the Marine Hospital Service (MHS). [1]

In the early years at MHS Blue spent most of his time working on public health by participating in the medical inspection of immigrants into the United States because they were trying to battle the outbreak of the plague epidemic. Rupert Blue was dispatched twice to oversee the rat eradication and urban sanitation programs once the bubonic plague hit San Francisco. [2]

[1] Rupert Blue." // . : The Great Pandemic : : The United States in 1918-1919 : . // Web. 9 Apr. 2011. . [2] //Ibid//