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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doc Michio and June Toshiyuki (ddr-csujad-8-77)

Oral history interview with Michio and June Toshiyuki. Information on the oral history project is found in: csuf_stp_0012A; Glossary in: csuf_stp_0014. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: FCPL Toshiyuki, Michio and June

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-8-77/

img Hospital pharmacy (ddr-densho-15-87)

Mr. Izui (left) and a colleague inside the hospital pharmacy.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-15-87/

img Interior of hospital laundry (ddr-densho-15-84)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-15-84/

img Interior of the hospital laundry (ddr-densho-15-83)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-15-83/

img Camp hospital staff (ddr-densho-157-85)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-157-85/

img Camp hospital (ddr-densho-157-98)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-157-98/

img Central corridor of the Minidoka hospital (ddr-fom-1-851)

WRA caption on reverse: "Hospital series / Central corridor."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-851/

img Dentist, Dr. T. Nakamura, working on a patient's teeth (ddr-fom-1-855)

WRA caption on reverse: "Hospital series / Dental laboratory."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-855/

img X-ray laboratory at Minidoka hospital (ddr-fom-1-868)

WRA caption on reverse: "Hospital / View in X-ray laboratory." Mabel Shigaya, the x-ray technician, was from Seattle, Washington.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-868/

img Doctor's quarters (ddr-fom-1-852)

WRA caption on reverse: "Hospital series / A doctor's quarters."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-852/

img Hospital waiting room (ddr-fom-1-848)

WRA caption on reverse: "Hospital series / Business office waiting room." The woman behind the counter is Catherine Sawada.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-848/

img Man sitting in the nurse aids and attendants classroom (ddr-fom-1-849)

WRA caption on reverse: "Hospital series / Nurse aid and attendants class room."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-849/

img The Health Section in Minidoka (ddr-fom-1-801)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-801/

img May Kumasaka looking through a microscope (ddr-fom-1-854)

WRA caption on reverse: "Hospital series / Laboratory." May Kumasaka was a laboratory technician at the Minidoka hospital. She was from Seattle, Washington.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-854/

img Dentist, Dr. T. Nakamura, working on a patient's teeth (ddr-fom-1-856)

WRA caption on reverse: "Hospital series / Dental laboratory."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-856/

img Torako Doi looking through a microscope (ddr-fom-1-853)

WRA caption on reverse: "Hospital series / Laboratory." Torako Doi was the chief laboratory technician at the Minidoka hospital. She was from Seattle, Washington.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-853/

img Mary Shimoda using the operating room sterilizer (ddr-fom-1-858)

WRA caption on reverse: "Hospital series / Operating room sterilizer."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-858/

img Nurse aid and attendants classroom (ddr-fom-1-850)

WRA caption on reverse: "Hospital series / Nurse aid and attendants class room."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-850/

img Minidoka hospital nursery (ddr-fom-1-857)

WRA caption on reverse: "Hospital series / Nursery."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-857/

img The Health Section in Minidoka (ddr-fom-1-800)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-800/

img Medical workers at Minidoka (ddr-fom-1-378)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-378/

img Dr. T. Uchida polishing false-teeth (ddr-fom-1-869)

WRA caption on reverse: "Polishing false-teeth on a buffer." Dr. T. Uchida, chief dentist in Minidoka, was from Seattle, Washington.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-fom-1-869/

doc Letter (with envelope) to Molly Wilson from June Yoshigai (March 21, 1943) (ddr-janm-1-82)

Handwritten letter to Molly Wilson from June Yoshigai (March 21, 1943). Envelope is postmarked March 22, 1943 from the Gila River Incarceration Camp in Rivers, Arizona.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-82/

doc Letter (with envelope) to Molly Wilson from Sadae (Lillian) Nishioka (June 8, 1942) (ddr-janm-1-94)

Handwritten letter to Molly Wilson from Sadae (Lillian) Nishioka (June 8, 1942). Envelope is postmarked June 11, 1942 and addressed from Lillian Nishioka from the Poston (Colorado River) Incarceration Camp in Parker, Arizona.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-94/

doc Letter (with envelope) to Mollie Wilson from Sadae (Lillian) Nishioka (July 7, 1942) (ddr-janm-1-97)

Handwritten letter to Molly Wilson from Sadae (Lillian) Nishioka (July 7, 1942). Envelope is postmarked July 9, 1942 from the Poston (Colorado River) Incarceration Camp in Parker, Arizona.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-97/