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 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/

doc Letter to Mollie Wilson from Sadae (Lillian) Nishioka (c. 1942) (ddr-janm-1-95)

Handwritten letter to Mollie Wilson from Sadae (Lillian) Nishioka (c. 1942) from the Poston (Colorado River) Incarceration Camp in Parker, Arizona.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-95/

doc Letter (with envelope) to Molly Wilson from Miyeko Imamura (March 2, 1944) (ddr-janm-1-66)

Handwritten letter to Molly Wilson from Miyeko Imamura (March 2, 1944). Envelope is postmarked March 2, 1944 from the Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp in Cody, Wyoming.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-66/

doc Letter (with envelope) to Molly Wilson from June Yoshigai (June 26, 1942) (ddr-janm-1-85)

Handwritten letter to Molly Wilson from June Yoshigai (June 26, 1942). Envelope is postmarked June 29, 1942 from the Santa Anita Assembly Center in Arcadia, California.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-85/

img View of the hospital (ddr-densho-298-4)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-298-4/

img A couple with their son (ddr-densho-298-22)

Caption in album: "Henry and Grace with their first-born, Ronald Yuji in the Doctor's Quarters Section of the Base Hospital in Topaz, 1944."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-298-22/

img A nurse in front of the hospital at Gila River (ddr-densho-315-19)

Nurse Lilla Brimhall standing in front of the hospital at Gila River concentration camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-315-19/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-27)

Basic translation: Request for mogusa [mugwort].Sent inquiry for mugwort but have not heard back from you. My sick friend is waiting, and I would like to know if you have any in stock. Please let me know.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-27/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-1)

Requet for medicine for sinus problem.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-1/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-12)

Request for hair dye and wakamoto.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-12/

doc Thank you letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-9)

Thank you for previous shipment. Would like to order mugwort and have it directly shipped to Poston.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-9/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-13)

Request for bigansui and astringent (face lotion).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-13/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Tule Lake concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-36)

Request for wakamoto.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-36/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Gila River concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-302)

Correspondence regarding a request for medicine for the Butte Hospital.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-302/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-4)

Request for notepads and capsules.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-4/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Gila River concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-304)

Correspondence regarding a request for medicine for the Butte Hospital.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-304/

doc Correspondence regarding advertising in the Manzanar Free Press (ddr-densho-319-412)

Letter acknowledging T.K. Pharmacy's difficulty in receiving Japanese medicine and their inability to advertise in the Manzanar Free Press.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-412/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Gila River concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-303)

Correspondence regarding a request for medicine for the Butte Hospital.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-303/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Tule Lake concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-42)

Request for Chujoto medicine.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-42/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Gila River concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-290)

Correspondence regarding an order for Community Hospital Ward D.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-290/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Tule Lake concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-40)

Request for herb medicine.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-40/

doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Tule Lake concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-29)

Request for wakamoto and Chujoto.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-29/