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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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Survey of Disabled (ddr-densho-356-869)
doc Survey of Disabled (ddr-densho-356-869)
Survey of the disabled in Amache. Document has been redacted to protect individual's personal health information. Document has been redacted to protect individual's personal health information.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-869/
Letter to Yuri Domoto from Tomi Domoto (ddr-densho-356-300)
doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Tomi Domoto (ddr-densho-356-300)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from her cousin Tomi Domoto in which discusses the first month at Jerome and general news about mutual friends. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-300/
Application for Registry of Crippled Child (ddr-densho-356-968)
doc Application for Registry of Crippled Child (ddr-densho-356-968)
Blank CC-14 application form for registering a disabled children to the State of Colorado.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-968/
Report on Groups Possibly Requiring Special Housing Accommodations (ddr-densho-329-986)
doc Report on Groups Possibly Requiring Special Housing Accommodations (ddr-densho-329-986)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-329-986/
Mourners at Nakashima Choichi's funeral (ddr-densho-37-1013)
img Mourners at Nakashima Choichi's funeral (ddr-densho-37-1013)
Included annotation: B-404, Nakashima Choichi, 54-11-C.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1013/
Front of check for Roy Okuda (ddr-densho-37-1166)
img Front of check for Roy Okuda (ddr-densho-37-1166)
Included annotation: E-203, copy of check.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1166/
Funeral of George Nosaka (ddr-densho-37-1020)
img Funeral of George Nosaka (ddr-densho-37-1020)
Included annotation: D-401, Geo. Nosaka 59-14-A.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1020/
Majorette at a hospital tea party (ddr-densho-37-1255)
img Majorette at a hospital tea party (ddr-densho-37-1255)
Included annotation: X-202, Hospital Silver Tea Party 12/5, Majorette Rosy Takeshita.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1255/
Funeral of Mrs. Fuyisaki (ddr-densho-37-1294)
img Funeral of Mrs. Fuyisaki (ddr-densho-37-1294)
Included annotation: F-301, Mrs. Fuyisaki, 48-14-A, Funeral, 12/24.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1294/
Dietitian aids walking to a hospital tea party (ddr-densho-37-1258)
img Dietitian aids walking to a hospital tea party (ddr-densho-37-1258)
Included annotation: X-205, Hospital Silver Tea Party.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1258/
Camp nursery (ddr-densho-37-224)
img Camp nursery (ddr-densho-37-224)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-224/
Hearse departing at Mrs. Nakata's funeral (ddr-densho-37-1293)
img Hearse departing at Mrs. Nakata's funeral (ddr-densho-37-1293)
Included annotation: E-307, Mrs. Nakata, Canal, Funeral, Dec. 22.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1293/
Butte community hospital (ddr-densho-37-965)
img Butte community hospital (ddr-densho-37-965)
Included annotation: S-8, Butte Community Hospital.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-965/
Camp hospital (ddr-densho-37-37)
img Camp hospital (ddr-densho-37-37)
Original WRA caption: High school students working part time as nurses' aides in the hospital and as orderlies.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-37/
Dietitian aids at a hospital tea party (ddr-densho-37-1250)
img Dietitian aids at a hospital tea party (ddr-densho-37-1250)
Included annotation: W-205, Hospital Silver Tea Party, 12/5, Dietician [sic] Aides.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1250/
Funeral of Kaoru Watanabe (ddr-densho-37-1308)
img Funeral of Kaoru Watanabe (ddr-densho-37-1308)
Included annotation: H-303, Mrs. Kaoru Watanabe, 62-2-C, Funeral, Dec. 28-43.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1308/
Hospital tea party guests (ddr-densho-37-1248)
img Hospital tea party guests (ddr-densho-37-1248)
Included annotation: W-203, Hospital Tea Party guests.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1248/
Mrs. Nakata's funeral (ddr-densho-37-1292)
img Mrs. Nakata's funeral (ddr-densho-37-1292)
Included annotation: E-306, Mrs. Nakata, Canal, Funeral, Dec. 22.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1292/
Pianist performs at a hospital tea party (ddr-densho-37-1249)
img Pianist performs at a hospital tea party (ddr-densho-37-1249)
Included annotation: W-204, Hospital Silver Tea Party, 12/5, Christmas carol choirs.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1249/
Hospital emergency entrance and ambulance (ddr-densho-37-797)
img Hospital emergency entrance and ambulance (ddr-densho-37-797)
Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Scene at the emergancy entrance of the Heart Mountain Hospital, as obstetrics case is brought in.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-797/
Ambulance outside the Canal hospital (ddr-densho-37-1056)
img Ambulance outside the Canal hospital (ddr-densho-37-1056)
Included annotation: H-406, Canal Hospital.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1056/
Mourners at a funeral (ddr-densho-37-1023)
img Mourners at a funeral (ddr-densho-37-1023)
Included annotation: D-402, 3/8.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1023/
Funeral of Mrs. Nakata (ddr-densho-37-1290)
img Funeral of Mrs. Nakata (ddr-densho-37-1290)
Included annotation: E-304, Mrs. Nakata, Canal, Funeral, Dec. 22.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1290/
News courier staff (ddr-densho-37-906)
img News courier staff (ddr-densho-37-906)
James Nakamura is seated front row, on the right. Included annotation: K-1, News Courier Staff.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-906/
Flowers drape Sangoro Mii's casket (ddr-densho-37-933)
img Flowers drape Sangoro Mii's casket (ddr-densho-37-933)
Included annotation: O-4, Late Mr. Sangoro Mii, Canal.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-933/
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