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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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Hanako Hoshiyama Fukumoto Interview Segment 18 (ddr-manz-1-136-18)
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/
Sadako Nimura Kashiwagi Interview Segment 8 (ddr-manz-1-172-8)
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/
Hope Omachi Kawashima Interview Segment 15 (ddr-manz-1-154-15)
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/
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