Norfolk, Va., Oct. 5—Conditions at Hatteras, N.C., where yesterday naval physicians reported a serious epidemic of diphtheria were said today to be under control with no further deaths since Friday when a 12-year-old child succumbed to the malady. Dr. D.H. Vance, medical officer at the naval air station here, who flew to Hatteras in a seaplane and took charge of the situation, said practically all of the dozen or more patients in the little village were improving today. However, his instructions to clean up the town and keep schools, churches and other places of public assembly closed, will stand until the situation clears up.
A total of 15,000 units of antitoxin has been sent from the naval station here to Hatteras in seaplanes and this is believed sufficient to care for present needs, Dr. Vance said. State health authorities in North Carolina, however have been notified of the outbreak and are expected to take action. There is no physician at Hatteras, which is cut off from the mainland by water.
From page 4 of the Carolina Jeffersonian, Oct. 6, 1925
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