A Brief History of Nome, Alaska

In the 19 twenties, many of the inupiac made their homes at a camp along a stretch of water front that was known as the sand spit. Counting outlying villages and mining camps, there were probably about ten thousand people in that area of alask so it's a pretty wide area we're looking at at this point. In 19 24, nome had exactly one doctor, and his name was doctor curtis welch. He and four nurses staffed a hospital that provided care for nome and the surrounding population. So all of those people had five health care providers total.