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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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Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-3)
doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-3)
Request for digestive system medicine, Wakamoto.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-3/
Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-21)
doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-21)
Request for Japanese sinus medicine and herb medicine, sent COD.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-21/
Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Gila River concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-298)
doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Gila River concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-298)
Correspondence regarding a request for medicine for the Butte Hospital.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-298/
Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-2)
doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-2)
Request for notepads, capsules, mugwort, and incense.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-2/
Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Gila River concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-296)
doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Gila River concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-296)
Request for medicine for the Butte Hospital.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-296/
Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-11)
doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Topaz concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-11)
Request for a quote for Japanese medicine: wakamoto and mankinko.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-11/
Correspondence regarding advertising in the Manzanar Free Press (ddr-densho-319-408)
doc Correspondence regarding advertising in the Manzanar Free Press (ddr-densho-319-408)
Letter sent from the Manzanar Free Press discussing the possibility of T.K. Phrarmacy advertising in the newspaper. They note that prescriptions are hard to come by in the camps.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-408/
Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Tule Lake concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-28)
doc Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from Tule Lake concentration camp (ddr-densho-319-28)
Request for mugwort from Ibuki Yama, Koshu and Wakanoura stomach medicine. Please send COD.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-319-28/
Scene still in the Manzanar hospital (ddr-densho-317-16)
img Scene still in the Manzanar hospital (ddr-densho-317-16)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-317-16/
Manzanar, hospital staff picnic (ddr-densho-343-116)
img Manzanar, hospital staff picnic (ddr-densho-343-116)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-116/
Manzanar, hospital, garden, unidentified patient (ddr-densho-343-119)
img Manzanar, hospital, garden, unidentified patient (ddr-densho-343-119)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-119/
Manzanar, nurses, aides (ddr-densho-343-82)
img Manzanar, nurses, aides (ddr-densho-343-82)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-82/
Death Valley, Cow Creek Camp. Infirmary (ddr-densho-343-20)
img Death Valley, Cow Creek Camp. Infirmary (ddr-densho-343-20)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-20/
Death Valley, Cow Creek Camp. Infirmary (ddr-densho-343-18)
img Death Valley, Cow Creek Camp. Infirmary (ddr-densho-343-18)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-18/
Manzanar, hospital staff (ddr-densho-343-94)
img Manzanar, hospital staff (ddr-densho-343-94)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-94/
Manzanar, hospital staff (ddr-densho-343-88)
img Manzanar, hospital staff (ddr-densho-343-88)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-88/
Manzanar, hospital patient, nurse (ddr-densho-343-121)
img Manzanar, hospital patient, nurse (ddr-densho-343-121)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-121/
Manzanar, nurses, aides, hospital (ddr-densho-343-75)
img Manzanar, nurses, aides, hospital (ddr-densho-343-75)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-75/
Death Valley, Cow Creek Camp, Infirmary, Chamberlain Family (B.R.), Morioka Family (other boy is Harry, cousin of Ned Morioka) (ddr-densho-343-21)
img Death Valley, Cow Creek Camp, Infirmary, Chamberlain Family (B.R.), Morioka Family (other boy is Harry, cousin of Ned Morioka) (ddr-densho-343-21)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-21/
Manzanar, hospital staff (ddr-densho-343-89)
img Manzanar, hospital staff (ddr-densho-343-89)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-89/
Manzanar, nurses aides (ddr-densho-343-69)
img Manzanar, nurses aides (ddr-densho-343-69)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-69/
Manzanar, hospital staff (ddr-densho-343-95)
img Manzanar, hospital staff (ddr-densho-343-95)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-95/
Gavigan Family, Irene, nurse. Manzanar, hospital (ddr-densho-343-104)
img Gavigan Family, Irene, nurse. Manzanar, hospital (ddr-densho-343-104)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-104/
Gavigan Family, Irene, nurse. Manzanar, hospital (ddr-densho-343-105)
img Gavigan Family, Irene, nurse. Manzanar, hospital (ddr-densho-343-105)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-105/
Manzanar, hospital, special physical and educational care ward for children assisted medically by California State Crippled Childrens Services, Thomas Family--Eleanor (ddr-densho-343-126)
img Manzanar, hospital, special physical and educational care ward for children assisted medically by California State Crippled Childrens Services, Thomas Family--Eleanor (ddr-densho-343-126)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-126/
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