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went from Jamestown to San Francisco, where the plague had reap- 

 peared, where lie handled the situation admirably, allaying friction and 

 working in noteworthy harmony with the municipal and state officers. 

 Later he spent some time in Europe, studying emigration, preventive 

 medicine and quarantine management. In May, 1910, Dr. Blue was 

 detailed to represent the service at the International Congress on Medi- 

 cine and Hygiene at Buenos Ayres, and took advantage of the oppor- 



Surgeon-General Rupert Blue. 



tunities there offered to study possible routes by which yellow fever and 

 plague might be imported into the United States. 



The last detail before he became surgeon-general was in Honolulu, 

 where he was sent to act in an advisory capacity to the Hawaiian board 

 of health and other branches of the territory government in carrying 

 out a sanitary program designed to decrease to the smallest possibility 

 danger of invasion by yellow fever or bubonic plague after the opening 

 of the Panama Canal, and to make their spread impossible, if intro- 

 duced. The appointment to the surgeon-generalship made necessary 

 the assumption of this work by Passed Assistant Surgeon McCoy, who 

 thus takes up the role of adviser to the Civic Sanitation Committee of 



