His telegram is pictured below.įlying was relatively new at the time and winter flight was still largely untested. Public Health Service in Washington, D.C., pleading for help. Desperate, he sent radiotelegrams to the other major towns in Alaska and one to the U.S. Welch had ordered more diphtheria antitoxin from the health commissioner in Juneau, but the port closed for the winter before the shipment arrived.
The next day a seven-year-old girl was diagnosed and Welch tried to give her expired antitoxin (all that was on hand) in hopes that it would work, but she died several hours later. After four children took ill and died, the town's only doctor, Curtis Welch, eventually diagnosed diphtheria in three-year-old Billy Barnett, who died just two weeks after the onset of symptoms. In the winter of 1924-1925, a diphtheria epidemic was threatening the town of Nome, located on the southern Seward Peninsula on the northwestern coast of Alaska. Was the diphtheria threat to Nome really as bad as it's portrayed in the movie? Photo: Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Library and Archives OL8061181W Page_number_confidence 89.82 Pages 342 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211019110446 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 198 Scandate 20211016170034 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780393325706 Tts_version 4.Champion dog musher Leonhard Seppala (left) circa 1925 and actor Willem Dafoe (right) as Seppala in the Disney Togo movie. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:13:46 Associated-names Salisbury, Laney Boxid IA40266212 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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