The Hygienic Laboratory
The laboratory the Marine Hospital Service set up in 1887 on Staten Island and moved to Washington in 1891, where it studied cholera, yellow fever, plague and other diseases. In 1930 it was renamed the National Institute of Health.
The Government Explains the Flu, 1918
U.S. Public Health Service (Rupert Blue, Surgeon General), “Spanish Influenza,” “Three-Day Fever,” “The Flu” (1918) · September 28, 1918
In addition to the appearance and the symptoms as already described, examination of the patient’s blood may aid the physician in recognizing “ Spanish influenza,” for it has been found that in this disease the number of white corpuscles shows little or no increase above the normal. It is possible that the laboratory investigations now being made through the National Research Council and the United States Hygienic Laboratory will furnish a more certain way in which individual cases of this disease can be recognized.
In addition to the appearance and the symptoms as already described, examination of the patient’s blood may aid the physician in recognizing “Spanish influenza,” for it has been found that in this disease the number of white corpuscles shows little or no increase above the normal. It is possible that the laboratory investigations now being made through the National Research Council and the United States Hygienic Laboratory will furnish a more certain way in which individual cases of this disease can be recognized.