Dr. Curtis Welch
By Candace
Dr. Welch feared however that the disease was already starting in other communities. He thought that someone traveling had brought the germ to Nome. It was almost too much to hope that someone from Nome had not already infected outlying villages during the incubation period of the first cases. (The Race to Nome by Kenneth A. Ungermann)
Dr. Curtis Welch moved to Alaska from Los Angeles in 1906. He was the only doctor in Nome after the gold rush ended. Dr. Welch diagnosed the Diphtheria epidemic in Nome in 1925 and notified the U.S. Department of Health, setting in motion the now famous Serum Run to deliver the needed medicine to Nome.
Sources
www.iditarod/serum_run.html
The Race to Nome (Kenneth A. Ungermann)