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U.S. medical care for Saipan civilions (One of a series) While a Japanese child struggles for life under a cellophane oxygen tent, an American doctor prepares another tent for a sick Japanese woman at a civilian internment camp on Saipan Island. Medical care, food, water and shelter were furnished to islanders and enemy civilians here, soon after the U.S. capture of the former enemy central Pacific base on July 8, 1944. Now, American and Japanese doctors treat approximately 1,200 cases a day at this crude hospital, most of them malnutrition caused by food deficiences before the Americans arrrived.