Medical care and health issues

Medical and dental facilities were for the most part inadequate, lacking in both equipment and staff. Doctors and nurses were overworked, and treatment was often substandard as well as delayed. Camp inmates recall outbreaks of food poisoning, tuberculosis and dysentery epidemics, and preventable deaths of patients and newborns.

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img Camp hospital (ddr-densho-37-37)

Original WRA caption: High school students working part time as nurses' aides in the hospital and as orderlies.

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img Hospital (ddr-densho-37-219)

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img Medical examination (ddr-densho-37-627)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. A former Californian, Doctor Fugikawa, examining a patient, S. Ego, in the center hospital fluroscope.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-627/

img Dedication of camp hospital (ddr-densho-37-561)

Original WRA caption: Topaz, Utah. A young doctor of Japanese parentage, addresses the gathered crowd at dedication ceremonies for the new hospital at the Topaz Relocation Center.

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img Hospital emergency entrance and ambulance (ddr-densho-37-797)

Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Scene at the emergancy entrance of the Heart Mountain Hospital, as obstetrics case is brought in.

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img Camp surgeons (ddr-densho-37-223)

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doc Birth announcement for Lloyd Takasugi (ddr-densho-331-13)

In Pacific Citizen Vol. 18 No. 14.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-331-13/

doc Report of Patients in Isolation Ward (ddr-densho-356-881)

Report of patients in Amache Hospital to determine if financial assistance is needed. Document has been redacted to protect individual's personal health information.

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doc Results of Discussion Regarding Mutual Problems of Medical Social Worker and Public Welfare Section (ddr-densho-356-928)

An outline of issues discussed at a meeting between Medical Social Workers, Public Health Nurses, and Public Welfare. Topics covered proper protocol to transfer various kinds of cases between departments.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-928/

doc Referrals and case notes for Strabismus (ddr-densho-356-868)

Referral to John Moore for Strabismus cases to provide funding, case worker notes regarding financial situation and wiliness to undergo treatment. Document has been redacted to protect individual's personal health information.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-868/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Nao Hoshino (ddr-densho-356-324)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Naoko Hoshino detailing the work environment of the social welfare office at Tule Lake and asking advice from Yuriko. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-324/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Rose Tani (ddr-densho-356-354)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Rose Tani that provides condolences for the death of Kanetaro Domoto (Yuriko's father). Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-354/

doc Letters requesting assistance from Denver WRA (ddr-densho-356-882)

Letter from Sara A. Brown, Associate Counselor to Granada Project Director James G. Lindley asking he send the attached letter to the Denver WRA office to ask their assistance in future cases where an individual is hospitalized in Denver and then released and returned to Amache. The attached letter is included and addressed from James G. …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-882/

doc Application for Registry of Crippled Child (ddr-densho-356-968)

Blank CC-14 application form for registering a disabled children to the State of Colorado.

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doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Mitsuko Nakamura (ddr-densho-356-387)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mitsuko Nakamura in which Mitsuko tells about how her family is adjusting to life at Crystal City and asks about Yuri's relocation to Boston. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-387/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Mitsuko Nakamura (ddr-densho-356-544)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mitsuko Nakamura. Mitsuko writes about her mother's passing and her regret that she didn't keep in touch more with Yuri when Yuri's father Kanetero died. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-551 and ddr-densho-356-577.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-544/

doc Memo regarding prescriptions (ddr-densho-356-909)

Memo from James G. Lindley to Dr. W. T. Carstarphen regarding approval of prescriptions, and treating special diet requests as prescriptions.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-909/

doc Memo regarding Child Health Conferences (ddr-densho-356-906)

Memo from Ruth E. Hudson to the Welfare Department regarding Child Health Conferences. Item stapled together with ddr-densho-356-887, 890, 902, 906 and 907.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-906/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Mitsuko Nakamura (ddr-densho-356-381)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mitsuko Nakamura in which Mistuko tells about her first days in Crystal City and how it differs from Amache. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-381/

doc Crippled Children Clinic (ddr-densho-356-867)

Notes from the crippled children clinic. Document has been redacted to protect individual's personal health information.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-867/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Tak Negi (ddr-densho-356-351)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Tak Negi that provides condolences for the death of Kanetaro Domoto (Yuriko's father). Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-351/

doc Block Distributions (ddr-densho-356-866)

Block Distributions, case notes, and glossary of terms. Document has been redacted to protect individual's personal health information.

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doc Medical Social Work Cases (ddr-densho-356-929)

Policies for working on welfare cases that are additionally medical cases.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-929/

doc Survey of Disabled (ddr-densho-356-869)

Survey of the disabled in Amache. Document has been redacted to protect individual's personal health information. Document has been redacted to protect individual's personal health information.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-869/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Tomi Domoto (ddr-densho-356-300)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from her cousin Tomi Domoto in which discusses the first month at Jerome and general news about mutual friends. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-300/