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Description
Mr. McGee describes how filthy the camps were and how diseases would break out. Also he went blind for a short period of time due to lack of vitamins.
Transcription
Interviewer: Can we go back to the camp, can you describe for us your sleeping area?
Well, to start with, it was nothing. The camp that we, we were at the same camp, camp Sham Shui Po, where we were, built as soldiers, not as prisoners. And there isn't a stick of wood, there isn't a window, everything's stripped, everything was just stripped. So we had a cement floor and ah, like one of us would have a blanket out of three or something and we would sleep on one or two blankets for about a... well we were there until ah, funny that I remember the date January 23rd. That's the way we were handled in that camp, in that camp and then they took us back to the island to North Point. Now North Point was were the other regiment were captured and were in it. And it was a filthy, filthy, like a couple horse barns in it, it was terrible. It was right on the ocean but filthy dirt and ah, we did our best to clean it up. But a lot of disease broke out there disease, diphtheria ....ah, went blind for awhile.
Interviewer: You went blind for awhile?
Yeah for awhile.
Interviewer: What would cause that?
Nourishment. Lack of vitamins.