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DG: Now, there were then three doctors or so for the ten thousand people?

NS: There were three or four doctors, Japanese doctors. Then there was a couple of white doctors, one from the neighboring town who had just finished his internship.

DG: So were they real busy?

NS: Yes. Everybody was busy because there were a lot of disoriented people, and people who... and then there was a certain number of...

DG: Well, by disoriented, do you mean, psychologically they were, you know...

NS: They didn't know where they were, they didn't know who they were, and they would wander around camp. So, being dangerous for them to be out, why, they were put into the hospital and supervised.

DG: So, how many of them would you say were there at a given time?

NS: I don't know what the capacity of the hospital was, but it might have been thirty or forty, offhand.

DG: And you helped with a little bit of that, right?

NS: No, I didn't help at the hospital at all. When I first went there, I helped the "Student Relocation" people and got in touch -- I found out which schools wanted the transferred evacuees, and then I got a list of people who were already...

DG: But when you were through with that, you mentioned something about...

NS: But it took about a month, the month of the September, by the time all of the students who had applied and were accepted had been transferred to their respective colleges. And then there were newer, just graduated people that wanted to go, but didn't know where. And so at that time I left the "Student Relocation" and went on to something else.

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