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Show 274 JAPANESE EVACUATION FROM THE WEST COAST tables, with benches, to seat 300 persons are standard. Each kitchen is equipped with three ranges, 60 cubic feet of electric refrigeration, scullery sinks, hot water heater and tank, cooks' tables, and a meat block. Shelving is built into the store room, and serving counters are provided. Concrete floors were standard after the first four camps where wooden ones were built. One recreatio~ building was constructed for each evacuee housing block. This is a 20' x 100' structure without partitions and has no equipment other than heaters. A combination latrine and laundry building, built in a "H" shape, was located between the two rows of barracks in each block. One side of this building contains the block laundry, the other, the men's ·.toilet arid shower rooms and women's toilet and bath rooms. In the space forming the cross bar of the "H" is housed the water heater and storage tank. Floors throughout are concrete. The laundry room is fitted out with 18 double compartment laundry trays and 18 ironing boards with an electric outlet at each board. Plumbing fixtures in each unit or block &cility are hung on the basis of eight showerheads, four bathtubs, fourteen lavatories, fourteen toilets, and one slop sink for the women; and twelve showerheads, twelve lavatories, ten toilets, four urinals and one slop sink for men. Supplies and Equipment. As stated in the introduction to this chapter, initial supplies and equipment were furnished to the War Relocation Authority by the War Department. This included not only major items that became a part of the buildings in which they were placed, but also the items which are used in the preparation and serving of food, the treatment of patients in the hospitals, and beds, mattresses and blankets for the homes of the evacuees. Hospital Equipment and Medical Supplies. In the buildings comprising the hospital, special equipment was installed to make them modern in every respect. Each ward has a diet kitchen with an electric range, an eight cubic ·foot electric refrigerator, shelving, and a sink. Flush rim sinks . and bedpan sterilizers are located in the wards. The isolation ward kitchen has in addition a mechanical dishwasher. Each outpatient building has a 100-200 MA X-Ray Machine as well as a portable 15-50 MA X-Ray. Ventilating fins are provided for the X-Ray developing room, the dental and the general laboratory. In the outpatient building there is a dental clinic wit~ modern chairs and equipment. Each surgery building has special lighting in its two operating rooms. Operating tables are provided and wash-up sinks, knee-operated, are available for the doctors' use. Four-piece sterilizer batteries handle the sterilizing of the ·in:struments. The morgue has a four-body electric refrigerator, autopsy table, and a bulk-pressure sterilizer and disinfector. The most recent types of heavy duty kitchen appliances are to be found in the hospital mess hall. Included are a steam table, electric bake oven, mechan- |
