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 Camp hospital (ddr-densho-159-189)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-189/

img Camp hospital (ddr-densho-159-193)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-193/

doc Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-78)

Likely issue number 80.

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doc Lordsburg Times number 34 (ddr-densho-536-32)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-536-32/

doc Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-167)

Likely issue number 168.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-536-167/

doc Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-119)

Likely issue number 120.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-536-119/

doc Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-30)

Likely issue number 30 or 31.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-536-30/

doc Lordsburg Times issue (ddr-densho-536-132)

Likely issue number 133.

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doc Lordsburg Times number 100 (ddr-densho-536-98)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-536-98/

img Mary Furushima at Rohwer (ddr-densho-542-497)

Written below photograph: Mary Furushima.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-542-497/

img Yuki Kimura at Rohwer (ddr-densho-542-498)

Written below photograph: Yuki Kimura.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-542-498/

img Hospital gals on a fence (ddr-densho-542-490)

Written below photograph: Mary Furushima, Yuki Kimura, Toshiko Ohata, Setsuko Fujita, Kiyo Matsumoto, "Hospital Gals."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-542-490/

vh Hideo Hoshide Interview I Segment 51 (ddr-densho-1000-184-51)

Wife has to make a difficult health decision while in concentration camp

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vh Ben Y. Tonooka Interview Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-390-21)

Hospitalized in camp for a heart condition

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.

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