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 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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

img Scene still in the Manzanar hospital (ddr-densho-317-16)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-317-16/

img Manzanar, hospital staff picnic (ddr-densho-343-116)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-116/

img Manzanar, hospital, garden, unidentified patient (ddr-densho-343-119)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-119/

img Manzanar, nurses, aides (ddr-densho-343-82)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-82/

img Death Valley, Cow Creek Camp. Infirmary (ddr-densho-343-20)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-20/

img Death Valley, Cow Creek Camp. Infirmary (ddr-densho-343-18)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-18/

img Manzanar, hospital staff (ddr-densho-343-94)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-94/

img Manzanar, hospital staff (ddr-densho-343-88)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-88/

img Manzanar, hospital patient, nurse (ddr-densho-343-121)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-121/

img Manzanar, nurses, aides, hospital (ddr-densho-343-75)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-343-75/

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/