Party of Japanese medical orderlies wearing gauze face masks. Two Japanese with notebooks; one of them is making notes. Medics disinfecting their hands. A Malay labourer, very thin and not expected to survive, lies on a bamboo bed. Medical supplies arriving at the hospital.

Hospital building with crowd of labourers outside. A very underweight man squats in a doorway and folds a piece of fabric. Japanese medical orderlies with a crate of white dressings. A Javanese labourer, wearing a loincloth and ragged shirt, suffering from sores. An emaciated labourer lying in a doorway. Exterior views of the hospital building and the camp site.

After a Japanese forced labour camp is found near Seletar naval base in Singapore, a makeshift hospital is established and Japanese medical orderlies are detailed to tend the sick.

Notes

Dopesheet gives the population of this camp as over 1,700 Malay and Javanese labourers, with the sick mostly suffering from dysentry and beri-beri. During the war many thousands of Asian civilians were used as forced labour, known as 'romusha' in Japanese. According to Bayly and Harper there were 18,000 Javanese workers in Malaya at the end of 1945.