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.

Medical care and health issues (265)

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img Hospital (ddr-densho-37-219)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-219/

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.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-797/

img Camp doctor (ddr-densho-37-222)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-222/

img Camp hospital (ddr-densho-159-191)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-191/

img Camp hospital (ddr-densho-159-187)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-187/

img Camp hospital (ddr-densho-159-189)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-189/

doc Postcard to Henrietta Schoen from K. Kayahara (ddr-densho-223-68)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-68/

img Nurse and smiling man posing in front of open hillside (ddr-densho-223-41)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-41/

img A man in white cap and uniform (ddr-densho-223-20)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-20/

img A man in medical uniform (ddr-densho-223-28)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-28/

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

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

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

In Pacific Citizen Vol. 18 No. 14.

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

img Manzanar, hospital staff picnic (ddr-densho-343-116)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-116/

img Manzanar, nurses, aides (ddr-densho-343-82)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-82/

img Manzanar, hospital staff picnic (ddr-densho-343-114)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-114/

img Manzanar, hospital patient, nurse (ddr-densho-343-120)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-120/

img Manzanar, hospital staff (ddr-densho-343-95)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-95/

Manzanar, hospital, special physical and educational care ward for children assisted medically by California State Crippled Childrens Services, Thomas Family--Eleanor (ddr-densho-343-126)

img Manzanar, hospital, special physical and educational care ward for children assisted medically by California State Crippled Childrens Services, Thomas Family--Eleanor (ddr-densho-343-126)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-126/

img Manzanar, hospital staff (ddr-densho-343-90)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-90/

img Gavigan Family, Irene, nurse, Manzanar, hospital (ddr-densho-343-103)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-103/

doc Letter (with envelope) to Molly Wilson from Miyeko Imamura (March 2, 1944) (ddr-janm-1-66)

Handwritten letter to Molly Wilson from Miyeko Imamura (March 2, 1944). Envelope is postmarked March 2, 1944 from the Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp in Cody, Wyoming.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-66/

vh Mitsue Nishio Interview Segment 19 (ddr-manz-1-152-19)

Having a child in camp

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-152-19/

vh Aiko Herzig Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1002-8-12)

Being present for father's death at Jerome, Arkansas, concentration camp; description of father's interests, values

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection ...

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-8-12/

vh Arnold T. Maeda Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1003-5-10)

Working as an orderly in camp's hospital

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1003-5-10/

vh Shigeki Sugiyama Interview Segment 10 (ddr-manz-1-96-10)

Thoughts on medical care in camp

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-96-10/