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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img Hospital (ddr-densho-37-219)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-219/

img Funeral of Shigeo Matsumura (ddr-densho-37-1162)

Included annotation: D-203, Shigeo Matsumura -36-7-A, Funeral.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1162/

img Funeral of Yamada Hisashi (ddr-densho-37-994)

Included annotation: B-202, Yamada.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-994/

img Mourners at a funeral (ddr-densho-37-1019)

Mourners at a funeral outside a Buddhist Church. Included annotation: C-403, 3/5/44.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1019/

img Christmas choir at a hospital tea party (ddr-densho-37-1251)

Included annotation: W-206, Hospital Silver Tea Party, 12/5, Christmas carol choir.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1251/

img Funeral of Masuda Miyaji (ddr-densho-37-1068)

Included annotation: L-406-407, Masuda Miyaji 65-13-C, 3/25.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1068/

img Mourners at Shigeo Matsumura's funeral (ddr-densho-37-1163)

Included annotation: D-204, Shigeo Matsumura-36-7-A, Funeral.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1163/

img Mourners at Mrs. Fuyisaki's funeral (ddr-densho-37-1295)

Included annotation: F-302, Mrs. Fuyisaki, 48-14-A, Funeral, 12/24.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1295/

img Mourners at Masaru Okuhara's funeral (ddr-densho-37-1264)

Included annotation: A-306, Masaru Okuhara Funeral, Dec. 7/43.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1264/

img Back of check for Roy Okuda (ddr-densho-37-1167)

Included annotation: E-204, copy of check.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1167/

img Mr. Yamamoto's funeral (ddr-densho-37-925)

Included annotation: N-3, Mr. Yamamoto Funeral.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-925/

img Mourners at Mrs. Nakata's funeral (ddr-densho-37-1291)

Included annotation: E-305, Mrs. Nakata, Canal, Funeral, Dec. 22.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1291/

img Funeral of Ichishi Hara (ddr-densho-37-1265)

Included annotation: B-301, Ichishi Hara Funeral, Canal, Dec. 10, 4-5-D.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1265/

img Funeral attendees around Mr. Yamamoto's casket (ddr-densho-37-928)

Included annotation: N-14, Mr. Yamamoto Funeral

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-928/

img Dentist (ddr-densho-37-221)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-221/

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/

img Mourners at Ichiro Miyake's funeral (ddr-densho-37-1165)

Included annotation: E-202, Ichiro Miyake Funeral Nov. 3.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1165/

doc Letters requesting assistance from Denver WRA (ddr-densho-356-882)

Letter from Sara A. Brown, Associate Counselor to Granada Project Director James G. Lindley asking he send the attached letter to the Denver WRA office to ask their assistance in future cases where an individual is hospitalized in Denver and then released and returned to Amache. The attached letter is included and addressed from James G. …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-882/

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/

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/

doc 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.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-250/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Mitsuko Nakamura (ddr-densho-356-387)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mitsuko Nakamura in which Mitsuko tells about how her family is adjusting to life at Crystal City and asks about Yuri's relocation to Boston. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-387/

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/

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/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Tak Negi (ddr-densho-356-313)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto from Tak Negi in which Tak describes her work as a dietitian at a local hospital, news about mutual friends and a long distance romance she is involved in. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-313/