Rupert Blue
Books
- The Parade Philadelphia, the Liberty Loan Parade, and the Deadliest Week in American History · Liszt Think
On September 28, 1918, two hundred thousand Philadelphians gathered for a Liberty Loan parade as influenza silently spread through the Navy Yard.
- The River City and Its Keepers…by the regular post from Washington. It bore the letterhead of the United States Public Health Service and the signature of Surgeon General Rupert Blue. Inside was Public Health Bulletin No. 116, a four-page warning dated August 19, addressed to health officers and medical practitioners acr…
- The Protocol of Normalcy (Mid‑September 1918)…t during wartime, and the war had reshaped the possible. The federal government’s influenza bulletins, arriving weekly from Surgeon General Rupert Blue’s office, emphasized prevention of panic as a primary objective. The Council of National Defense had warned that alarmist reports could dam…
- The Rules on Wilmer Krusen’s Desk…tion. The deepest stratum was the national philosophy of the United States Public Health Service, embodied in the person of Surgeon General Rupert Blue. Blue had held his post since 1912, through the last years of the Progressive Era’s faith in scientific administration. The Service he comm…