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 Medical personnel and nurses posing in front of a building (ddr-densho-223-49)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-49/

img A nurse and a man in an apron sharing food (ddr-densho-223-31)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-31/

doc Letter to Henrietta Schoen from Takuyo Togawa (ddr-densho-223-59)

A letter from the wife of a medical staffer at Sante Fe thanking Henrietta Schoen for her correspondence.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-59/

doc Postcard to Henrietta Schoen from K. Kayahara (ddr-densho-223-68)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-68/

img Two men with white caps and smocks in front of a row of windows (ddr-densho-223-36)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-36/

doc Letter to Henrietta Schoen from Riichi Togawa (ddr-densho-223-65)

A letter telling Henrietta Schoen about adjustment after returning home.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-65/

doc "Internment Camp Hospital; Santa Fe, New Mexico. February 21, 1945" (ddr-densho-223-52)

Numbered drawing of people in group photo with list of names. No corresponding photo found in the collection.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-52/

doc Letter to Henrietta Schoen from Mrs. Tatsuyo Matsuo (ddr-densho-223-79)

Letter thanking Henrietta Schoen for her care of Sei Fujii and telling her of his travel to Lordsburg.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-79/

img Medical personnel and nurses posing in front of a building (ddr-densho-223-50)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-50/

img Small group of men posing in front of dispensary (ddr-densho-223-33)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-33/

doc Letter to Henrietta Schoen from Kyujiro Ishida (ddr-densho-223-76)

Letter thanking Henrietta Schoen for her care of Kyujiro Ishida.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-76/

img A doctor wearing a stethoscope sitting on bench (ddr-densho-223-19)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-19/

img Two men posing (ddr-densho-223-29)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-29/

doc Letter to Henrietta Schoen from Takeshi Ban (ddr-densho-223-58)

A letter thanking Henrietta Schoen for her kindness while Takeshi Ban was at Sante Fe.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-58/

img Henrietta Schoen and a man wearing an apron posing with doughnuts (ddr-densho-223-32)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-32/

img Henrietta Schoen posing with four Japanese men (ddr-densho-223-14)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-14/

img Large group of men posing in front of dispensary (ddr-densho-223-12)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-12/

img Henrietta Schoen posing in front of barracks (ddr-densho-223-9)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-9/

img A man in white cap and uniform (ddr-densho-223-20)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-20/

img Men in white caps and aprons posing in front of a rock quarry (ddr-densho-223-35)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-35/

img Three nurses in cloaks standing with a man in a suit (ddr-densho-223-22)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-22/

doc Letter to Miss Schoen from Harry K. Oye (ddr-densho-223-60)

A letter thanking Henrietta Schoen for her care of Harry K. Oye during his time at Sante Fe and informing her of his new life at Poston. Includes a clipping of a Bible verse, Matthew 5, 44 in German.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-60/