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DG: So did your husband help set up the facilities?

NS: Yes. The hospital was built, and there were doctors assigned. I think we had a doctor from California or someplace, and also the local doctor from the small town near Minidoka. He had just finished his internship, so he didn't know too much about administration or medicine even. Paul had more experience, so he had a lot to do with setting up the facilities and getting things ready for the evacuees. A good many of the early evacuees were taken to neighboring hospitals because Minidoka wasn't set up for patients. But by the time I was operated on, I stayed in Minidoka.

DG: Do you know what other kinds of operations and things they did there?

NS: They didn't do complicated ones like brain surgery or anything like that, but mostly tonsillectomies and appendectomies, and the hospital took care of a lot of disoriented people. It was surprising that the change in the facilities and also the change in their lives affected some people and they were disoriented.

DG: What do they do when they're disoriented?

NS: They took them in the hospital and had them for a while and took care of them in the hospital.

DG: What...

NS: They couldn't do very much with them, excepting to feed them and take care of 'em. But -- and eventually it took a while, but eventually they came out of it, or their families could help take care of them. But there were a good many of disoriented people.

DG: And depression?

NS: Depression, (yes).

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