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 Alan Ladd, Sue Carroll [Carrol], and Bill Kato [with an injured man] (ddr-csujad-56-313)

Two injured men, including Bill Kato, play cards, while Alan Ladd and Sue Carol look on. Taken at Fitzsimmons General Hospital. Handwritten text on back of photo reads, "Taken at Fitz. Gen. on Dec. 12, 1944, including Alan Ladd, Sue Carroll and Bill Kato." The original image is housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-56-313/

img Camp hospital area (ddr-densho-2-42)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-2-42/

img Hospital pharmacy (ddr-densho-15-87)

Mr. Izui (left) and a colleague inside the hospital pharmacy.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-15-87/

img Interior of hospital laundry (ddr-densho-15-84)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-15-84/

img Interior of the hospital laundry (ddr-densho-15-83)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-15-83/

img Dentist's office (ddr-densho-39-4)

Original museum description: Photograph, black and white glossy of a dentist's infirmary at Minidoka internment camp. The dentist is working on a man's teeth while three women (one shows only her hair) are working in the back. (Info from original museum description)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-39-4/

img Hospital nursery (ddr-densho-39-54)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-39-54/

img Two hospital interns (ddr-densho-118-14)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-118-14/

img Nurse with patient and others outside barracks (ddr-densho-93-3)

Original Ansel Adams caption: Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi and patient Tom Kano. Others: George Nakano, Keiko Kamahara.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93-3/

img Hospital patient (ddr-densho-93-54)

Original Ansel Adams caption: Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi, Harry Sumida and Michael Yonemetsu [i.e. Yonemitsu] in hosposital [sic] / photograph by Ansel Adams. Harry Sumida rests his hand on an x-ray plate.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93-54/

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/

img Scene still in the Manzanar hospital (ddr-densho-317-16)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-317-16/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-1)

Requet for medicine for sinus problem.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-1/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-12)

Request for hair dye and wakamoto.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-12/

doc Thank you letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-9)

Thank you for previous shipment. Would like to order mugwort and have it directly shipped to Poston.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-9/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-13)

Request for bigansui and astringent (face lotion).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-13/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Tule Lake concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-36)

Request for wakamoto.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-36/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Gila River concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-302)

Correspondence regarding a request for medicine for the Butte Hospital.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-302/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-4)

Request for notepads and capsules.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-4/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Tule Lake concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-42)

Request for Chujoto medicine.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-42/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Gila River concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-290)

Correspondence regarding an order for Community Hospital Ward D.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-290/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-21)

Request for Japanese sinus medicine and herb medicine, sent COD.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-21/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Gila River concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-298)

Correspondence regarding a request for medicine for the Butte Hospital.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-298/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-2)

Request for notepads, capsules, mugwort, and incense.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-2/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Gila River concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-296)

Request for medicine for the Butte Hospital.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-296/