Rupert Blue

Rupert Blue ( born March 30, 1868 Richmond County, North Carolina, † April 12, 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina) was an American physician and 1912-1920 Surgeon General of the United States. During his tenure, the outbreak of the Spanish flu was. He is accused today that he then met with insufficient measures to slow the spread of the disease at least.

Blue attended from 1889 to 1890, the University of Virginia and received his medical training at the University of Maryland, from which he graduated in 1892. With the Public Health Service, he had to do for the first time in 1892. From 11 June 1892 to 2 March 1893, he completed an internship in this organization. He received a permanent position there from 3 March 1893. He fell through competence and energetic approach to pest and cholera epidemics in San Francisco and was appointed on the basis of these achievements as head of the Public Health Service and the Organización Panamericana de la Salud.

With the participation of the United States in the First World War in 1917, Blue was faced with a growing shortage of doctors and nurses.