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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vh Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 68 (ddr-densho-1000-135-68)

Mitsuye's work at the Minidoka camp hospital

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vh Mary Kinoshita Ikeda Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-510-19)

Mother's illness in camp

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vh Betty Morita Shibayama Interview Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-152-26)

A younger sister is born in camp; mother stayed to work in camp while father went out to work in Oregon

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vh Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Interview II Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-250-13)

Coping with birth of first child in camp

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vh Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Interview II Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-250-14)

Transferring to Jerome concentration camp to care for dying father

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vh Kay Matsuoka Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-48-23)

Husband contracts tuberculosis, ostracized by rest of camp

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vh Kay Matsuoka Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-48-22)

Husband's tuberculosis in camp: quarantined in an abandoned post office

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vh Kay Matsuoka Segment 35 (ddr-densho-1000-48-35)

Husband contracts tuberculosis while in Gila River concentration camp, is ostracized

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vh Kay Matsuoka Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-48-21)

Finding out that husband has contracted tuberculosis in camp

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vh Kay Matsuoka Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-48-24)

Detailing a history of difficult relations with in-laws while husband is ill with tuberculosis

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vh Kay Matsuoka Segment 39 (ddr-densho-1000-48-39)

Last to leave, a difficult labor keeps camp hospital open, and Kay in camp

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vh Nobu Suzuki Interview II Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-87-1)

Life in Minidoka concentration camp: medical facilities and services

References are made to several of Nobu Suzuki's personal papers, which are currently available for public perusal at the University of Washington's Manuscripts and University Archives.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-87-1/

vh Nobu Suzuki Interview II Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-87-3)

Medical facilities and services in Minidoka

References are made to several of Nobu Suzuki's personal papers, which are currently available for public perusal at the University of Washington's Manuscripts and University Archives.

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vh Nobu Suzuki Interview II Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-87-2)

Mental health problems in camp: "disorientation"

References are made to several of Nobu Suzuki's personal papers, which are currently available for public perusal at the University of Washington's Manuscripts and University Archives.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-87-2/

vh Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-138-7)

Gaining valuable experience working as a male attendant in the camp hospital

William Toshio Yasutake was interviewed together with his sister Mitsuye (Yasutake) Yamada and surviving brother, Joseph Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. He was interviewed individually on November 14, 2002.

Before being contacted by Densho, the Yasutake siblings had planned to conduct …

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