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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doc Letter from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-170)

Pushing him to keeping looking for another house for her father, knows that it will not work to have all of them (Tomoye, Henri, two children, Helen, Martha and her father) under one roof, Pinkie has the chicken pox and they are under quarantine

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-170/

doc Card from Tomoye (Nozawa) Takahashi to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-426)

News of her pregnancy, how Pinkie's doing, when her father is heading to S.F.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-426/

doc Letter from Tomoye Takahashi to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-99)

Details about plans in near future returning to S.F. and whether she will stay in camp until baby is born,

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-99/

doc Card from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-127)

Glad curtains and other items arrived, had prenatal appointment and all is well

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-127/

doc Letter from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-114)

Still in hospital on bed rest, is not happy with the doctors that will be there for the birth, looking forward to living in her own house again, Frank Nedbal sold the laundry business without consulting with them.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-114/

doc Letter from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-112)

Is on bed rest in hospital after some bleeding, but is fine and will stay until regular doctor returns. Martha (Pinkie) is staying with Tomoye's father

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-112/

doc Letter from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-124)

Asking him to help Mr. Kawabata move his things from storage to his property before he gets to San Leandro, is worried about having no help when the baby is born and whether should try to get to S.F. before then.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-124/

doc Letter from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-118)

Should be going to the hospital any day, her father and Martha will be there to help.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-118/

doc Letter from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-123)

Is considering taking castor oil to induce labor since she doesn't like the doctors who will be available for the birth after her regular doctor leaves, pregnancy has been particularly uncomfortable.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-123/

doc Bill for glasses (ddr-densho-410-58)

Sent to Henri Takahashi from Topaz Hospital for $8.80

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-58/

doc Letter from Henri to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-139)

Unhappy that she plans to stay in Provo longer, annoyed that she asked him to send her sewing machine, got blood poisoning from an insect bite.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-139/

doc Letter from Ruth Yamada to Matsuye Koike, March 11, 1943 (ddr-densho-432-13)

This letter discusses life at Rohwer concentration camp, including discussion of a wedding, dentistry, and rations. Matsuye Koike received the letter while imprisoned at Fort Missoula, MT. The letter was "detained alien enemy mail examined."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-432-13/

doc Masa Miyoshi's Adult Education Journal (ddr-densho-480-172)

Journal includes class notes from adult education program, journal entries, correspondence, and medical exemption notes.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-480-172/

doc Tule Lake Directory and Camp News (ddr-densho-520-1)

A book complied by Harry Inukai and published in May 1988. It includes a directory of Tule Lake concentration camp between May 1942 through September 1943 including barrack addresses. The second half of the book includes camp news in the following categories: Shows and Entertainment, Social Highlights, Vital Statistics, Departures, Arrivals and Transfers, Service News, Farm …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-520-1/

img Nursery (ddr-densho-556-21)

Eleanor (Spainer) Fitzgerald holding a baby at the Rohwar Nursery where she worked as an obstetrics nurse. Handwritten on front in green ink: "-Nursery- Relocation Hospital, McGee, Arkansas. Oct. 1944.", Handwritten on the front in blue ink: "Oct - 1945"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-556-21/

img Center Aerial (ddr-densho-556-14)

front labeled in white ink, second row from right labeled "#6" and "#5", Handwritten on back: "Aerial / Birds-eye view of the center" "Hospital in foreground" "x=surgery [division sign] ambulances"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-556-14/

doc 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.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-433-5/