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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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Letter from Henri to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-139)
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/
Letter from Ruth Yamada to Matsuye Koike, March 11, 1943 (ddr-densho-432-13)
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/
Masa Miyoshi's Adult Education Journal (ddr-densho-480-172)
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/
Tule Lake Directory and Camp News (ddr-densho-520-1)
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/
Nursery (ddr-densho-556-21)
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/
Center Aerial (ddr-densho-556-14)
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/
Letter from Lily Abiko to Kimi Fujii (ddr-densho-433-5)
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/
Letter from Hank to Kizie Fujii (ddr-densho-433-12)
doc 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.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-433-12/
Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-167)
doc Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-167)
Likely issue number 168.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-536-167/
Lordsburg Times number 34 (ddr-densho-536-32)
doc Lordsburg Times number 34 (ddr-densho-536-32)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-536-32/
Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-78)
doc Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-78)
Likely issue number 80.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-536-78/
Lordsburg Times number 100 (ddr-densho-536-98)
doc Lordsburg Times number 100 (ddr-densho-536-98)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-536-98/
Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-132)
doc Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-132)
Likely issue number 133.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-536-132/
Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-30)
doc Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-30)
Likely issue number 30 or 31.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-536-30/
Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-119)
doc Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-119)
Likely issue number 120.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-536-119/
Report of Patients in Isolation Ward (ddr-densho-356-881)
doc Report of Patients in Isolation Ward (ddr-densho-356-881)
Report of patients in Amache Hospital to determine if financial assistance is needed. Document has been redacted to protect individual's personal health information.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-881/
Memo regarding Child Health Conferences (ddr-densho-356-906)
doc Memo regarding Child Health Conferences (ddr-densho-356-906)
Memo from Ruth E. Hudson to the Welfare Department regarding Child Health Conferences. Item stapled together with ddr-densho-356-887, 890, 902, 906 and 907.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-906/
Memo regarding prescriptions (ddr-densho-356-909)
doc Memo regarding prescriptions (ddr-densho-356-909)
Memo from James G. Lindley to Dr. W. T. Carstarphen regarding approval of prescriptions, and treating special diet requests as prescriptions.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-909/
Medical Social Work Cases (ddr-densho-356-929)
doc Medical Social Work Cases (ddr-densho-356-929)
Policies for working on welfare cases that are additionally medical cases.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-929/
Letter to Yuri Domoto from Mitsuko Nakamura (ddr-densho-356-381)
doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Mitsuko Nakamura (ddr-densho-356-381)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mitsuko Nakamura in which Mistuko tells about her first days in Crystal City and how it differs from Amache. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-381/
Letter to Yuri Domoto from Mitsuko Nakamura (ddr-densho-356-544)
doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Mitsuko Nakamura (ddr-densho-356-544)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mitsuko Nakamura. Mitsuko writes about her mother's passing and her regret that she didn't keep in touch more with Yuri when Yuri's father Kanetero died. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-551 and ddr-densho-356-577.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-544/
Block Distributions (ddr-densho-356-866)
doc Block Distributions (ddr-densho-356-866)
Block Distributions, case notes, and glossary of terms. Document has been redacted to protect individual's personal health information.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-866/
Birth announcement for Lloyd Takasugi (ddr-densho-331-13)
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/
Letter to Yuri Domoto from Rose Tani (ddr-densho-356-354)
doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Rose Tani (ddr-densho-356-354)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Rose Tani that provides condolences for the death of Kanetaro Domoto (Yuriko's father). Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-354/
Results of Discussion Regarding Mutual Problems of Medical Social Worker and Public Welfare Section (ddr-densho-356-928)
doc Results of Discussion Regarding Mutual Problems of Medical Social Worker and Public Welfare Section (ddr-densho-356-928)
An outline of issues discussed at a meeting between Medical Social Workers, Public Health Nurses, and Public Welfare. Topics covered proper protocol to transfer various kinds of cases between departments.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-928/
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