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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Correspondence regarding advertising in the Manzanar Free Press (ddr-densho-319-412)
Letter acknowledging T.K. Pharmacy's difficulty in receiving Japanese medicine and their inability to advertise in the Manzanar Free Press.
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Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Gila River concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-303)
Correspondence regarding a request for medicine for the Butte Hospital.
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Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-27)
Basic translation: Request for mogusa [mugwort].Sent inquiry for mugwort but have not heard back from you. My sick friend is waiting, and I would like to know if you have any in stock. Please let me know.