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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vh Nobu Suzuki Interview II Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-87-2)

Mental health problems in camp: "disorientation"

References are made to several of Nobu Suzuki's personal papers, which are currently available for public perusal at the University of Washington's Manuscripts and University Archives.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-87-2/

vh Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-138-7)

Gaining valuable experience working as a male attendant in the camp hospital

William Toshio Yasutake was interviewed together with his sister Mitsuye (Yasutake) Yamada and surviving brother, Joseph Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. He was interviewed individually on November 14, 2002.

Before being contacted by Densho, the Yasutake siblings had planned to conduct …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-138-7/

vh May Ota Higa Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-174-19)

Difficulties with mother's mental health condition in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-174-19/

vh Yae Wada Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-476-9)

Complications after having a baby in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-476-9/

vh Yae Wada Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-476-10)

Coping with caring for a newborn in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-476-10/

vh Yae Wada Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-476-11)

Staying in camp and caring for a second baby

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-476-11/

vh Chizuko Norton Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-73-23)

Dealing with illness in camp, mother's passing

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-73-23/

vh Fumiko Hayashida Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-15-26)

Obtaining supplies to care for children in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-15-26/

vh Fumiko Hayashida Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-15-24)

Giving birth in a concentration camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-15-24/

vh Fumiko Hayashida Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-15-23)

Health care in Manzanar concentration camp: prenatal, delivery, and newborn care

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-15-23/

vh Yaeko Nakano - Hiroshi Nakano - Kenichi Nakano - Stanley Nakano Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-70-10)

Medical care at Tule Lake: giving birth, unable to find care for newborn son's hernia

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-70-10/

vh George Yoshida Interview Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-132-26)

Witnessing medical reactions to incarceration while working at a camp hospital

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-132-26/

vh George Yoshida Interview Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-132-25)

Working as an orderly at the camp hospital; observing a surgery

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-132-25/

vh Kajiko Hashisaki Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-201-11)

Coping with mother's medical condition in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-201-11/

vh Akiko Okuno Interview Segment 25 (ddr-manz-1-133-25)

Father's illness in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-133-25/

vh Mitsue Nishio Interview Segment 19 (ddr-manz-1-152-19)

Having a child in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-152-19/

vh Joyce Okazaki Interview II Segment 9 (ddr-manz-1-146-9)

Health care in camp: visiting father at the hospital

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-146-9/

vh Shigeki Sugiyama Interview Segment 10 (ddr-manz-1-96-10)

Thoughts on medical care in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-96-10/

vh Shigeki Sugiyama Interview Segment 9 (ddr-manz-1-96-9)

Working in the Manzanar hospital

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-96-9/

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/

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/

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/

vh Joe Takehara Interview Segment 10 (ddr-chi-1-15-10)

School and medical care in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-chi-1-15-10/

vh Lucy Kirihara Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1014-18-12)

Medical care in camp

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.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1014-18-12/

vh Mabel Shoji Boggs Interview Segment 10 (ddr-one-7-14-10)

Working as a nurse's aide in camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-one-7-14-10/