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 George Yoshida Interview Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-132-25)

Working as an orderly at the camp hospital; observing a surgery

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-132-25/

vh Kajiko Hashisaki Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-201-11)

Coping with mother's medical condition in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-201-11/

vh Akiko Okuno Interview Segment 25 (ddr-manz-1-133-25)

Father's illness in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-133-25/

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

Having a child in camp

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

vh Joyce Okazaki Interview II Segment 9 (ddr-manz-1-146-9)

Health care in camp: visiting father at the hospital

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-146-9/

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

Thoughts on medical care in camp

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

vh Shigeki Sugiyama Interview Segment 9 (ddr-manz-1-96-9)

Working in the Manzanar hospital

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-96-9/

vh Hanako Hoshiyama Fukumoto Interview Segment 18 (ddr-manz-1-136-18)

Having a baby in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-136-18/

vh Sadako Nimura Kashiwagi Interview Segment 8 (ddr-manz-1-172-8)

Transferring to Tule Lake, sister born soon after

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-172-8/

vh Hope Omachi Kawashima Interview Segment 15 (ddr-manz-1-154-15)

Mother's hardships in camp having a baby, husband gone

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-154-15/

vh Joe Takehara Interview Segment 10 (ddr-chi-1-15-10)

School and medical care in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-chi-1-15-10/

vh Lucy Kirihara Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1014-18-12)

Medical care in camp

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.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1014-18-12/

vh Mabel Shoji Boggs Interview Segment 10 (ddr-one-7-14-10)

Working as a nurse's aide in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-one-7-14-10/

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

Working as an orderly in camp's hospital

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

vh Aiko Herzig Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1002-8-10)

Having a baby in camp: feeling angry because of lack of nutritious food for child

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 …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-8-10/

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

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