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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Draft of letter to Yoshito Shibata from Yuri Domoto (ddr-densho-356-250)
Draft of a letter to Yoshito Shibata from Yuri Domoto Tsukada in which she talks about the dusty weather at Amache, the pain of evacuation, her family's joy at hearing from him, and notification of the birth of a nephew.

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Takeharu Inouye Diary (ddr-densho-365-2)
In the second diary he kept in the camp at Tule Lake, Takeharu Inouye recounts his struggles with education and the boredom resulting from few recreational opportunities. Though he participated in several baseball games with his classmates, Takeharu spent the majority of his free time attending the movie showings that occurred daily or weekly throughout the …

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Takeharu Inouye Diary (ddr-densho-365-1)
Takeharu Inouye's first diary documents his family's forced move to the Sacramento Assembly Center, followed by their move to the Tule Lake concentration camp. Since his mother, Miyoe Inouye, was a teacher, thirteen-year-old Takeharu's diary focuses on his classes in the Japanese and American schools at Tule Lake. His struggles with his schoolwork, as well as …

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Letter from Lily Abiko to Kimi Fujii (ddr-densho-433-5)
Lily Abiko writes to Kimi Fujii about a date night with Frank and his new wife and advises Kimi that she and Frank aren't together because of a "nasty" letter she sent to Frank due to her temper.

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Letter from Hank to Kizie Fujii (ddr-densho-433-12)
Hank writes to Kizie (Kimiko) Fujii with updates on friends and a request for green wool and a pair of shoes.

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Minidoka hospital laundry (ddr-densho-518-43)
Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Hospital Laundry, Tsugio, Anzai, Kadashima.

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Workers in the hospital laundry department (ddr-densho-518-44)
Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Hospital Laundry.

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Patients waiting to see a dentist (ddr-densho-518-41)
Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Hospital, Dentist Line Up.

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Minidoka hospital surgery (ddr-densho-518-39)
Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Hospital, Surgery, [left to right] Miss Schwager, Shig Shiata, Lucille, Teru Nakamura.

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Minidoka hospital pharmacy (ddr-densho-518-42)
Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Hospital, Pharmacy, Mr. Izui [left], Mr. Chiba [right].

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Minidoka hospital staff (ddr-densho-518-40)
Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Hospital, [left to right ] Pauline Tanabe, Aiko Masuda, Miss Schwager, Grace.

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First large list of staple drugs, the most money I ever spent in one day which of course means nothing to anyone, except myself (ddr-csujad-55-1378)
Order form including list of staple drugs for use at Crystal City Department of Justice Internment Camp. Form includes name of drugs, quantity, unit, price, and amount. From the Mary F. Clark scrapbook, "Before I Forget, 1942-1947," page 49. See also sac_jaac_1334 through sac_jaac_1529. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project …

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Program from Christmas party for medical staff at Crystal City Department of Justice Internment Camp (ddr-csujad-55-1387)
Program for a Christmas party for the medical staff at Crystal City Department of Justice Internment Camp. From the Mary F. Clark scrapbook, "Before I Forget, 1942-1947," page 56. See also sac_jaac_1334 through sac_jaac_1529. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1389

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Department of Health and Physical Education proposed program 1943-1944 (ddr-csujad-55-1734)
Program proposal for the department of Health and Physical Education at Poston incarceration camp. Includes health services, follow up, control and prevention of communicable diseases, development of attitudes and knowledge related to health, and activities and physical education, See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1736

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Minutes from the Heart Mountain Community Council meeting, October 26, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-484)
Minutes from the Heart Mountain Community Council meeting. Includes discussion on Christmas, "evacuee doctors", and camp operations and services. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0486

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Training of George K. Kambara, MD (ddr-csujad-55-1985)
Article on George K. Kambara covering his early life in California, education, incarceration, his ophthalmology practice at the Tule Lake incarceration camp, his experience as a doctor in Memphis and Wisconsin, relocation to Los Angeles, and discrimination as a Japanese-American. Published in "Archives of ophthalmology," Vol. 117, September 1999. See this object in the California State …

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Report on the present health conditions and medical provisions of the German group at camp Crystal City, Texas (ddr-csujad-55-1396)
Report on health conditions, diseases, and medical provisions for German internees at the Crystal City Department of Justice Internment Camp. From Mary F. Clark scrapbook, "Before I Forget, 1942-1947," page 60. See also sac_jaac_1334 through sac_jaac_1529. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1398

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Letter from S.F. Oliver, (Surg) UEPES, Medical Officer in Charge to Mr. Elwood, Liaison Division, Crystal City, Texas, August 20, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-1395)
Correspondence from S. F. Oliver, Medical Officer in Charge, to Larry Elmwood, Liaison Office, regarding a request for preferential medical treatment for the Schnellbach family. From the Mary F. Clark scrapbook, "Before I Forget, 1942-1947," page 60. See also sac_jaac_1334 through sac_jaac_1529. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1397

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First large list of staple drugs, the most money I ever spent in one day which of course means nothing to anyone, except myself (ddr-csujad-55-1379)
Order form including list of staple drugs for use at Crystal City Department of Justice Internment Camp. Form includes name of drugs, quantity, unit, price, and amount. From the Mary F. Clark scrapbook, "Before I Forget, 1942-1947," page 49. See also sac_jaac_1334 through sac_jaac_1529. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project …

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Minutes from the Heart Mountain Community Council meeting, December 17, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-501)
Minutes from the Heart Mountain Community Council meeting. Includes discussion on food and report from the Health and Sanitation Committee. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0503

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Hospital area (ddr-csujad-55-2642)
Photograph of hospital area at the Jerome camp, Denson, Arkansas, 1943. Title from caption. See also sac_jaac_2808 for envelope. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2806

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Medical certificate (concerning ability of alien to travel), Form I-142 (ddr-csujad-55-1487)
Blank form used for the purposes of providing a medical certificate for chronically ill internees preparing to be repatriated to their home country from the Crystal City Department of Justice Internment Camp. Form I-149. From the Mary F. Clark scrapbook, "Before I Forget, 1942-1947," page 129. See also sac_jaac_1334 through sac_jaac_1529. See this object in the …