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The United States Public Health Service

The United States government's health service, named the Public Health Service in 1912 and headed by the Surgeon General. It grew out of the marine hospitals Congress set up in 1798 for sick seamen.

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

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UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.
RUPERT BLUE, SURGEON GENERAL.
“SPANISH INFLUENZA”—“THREE-DAY FEVER”
“THE FLU.”

United States Public Health Service. Rupert Blue, Surgeon General. “Spanish Influenza”—“Three-Day Fever”—“The Flu.”