Oral History Interview with William J. Stewart, June 11, 1981 Page: 82
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of course, why they didn't get it in Java, I don't
know. But on there they did. If you get dysentery,
you don't live but two or three days at the most,
and that's it.
Dysentery evidently is a rather nasty thing.
It's a nasty disease, yes, It's painful, and it gives
your stomach cramps and fever, It's apparently
miserable.
With all those people down in that hold, and with all
those people having dysentery, that place must have
stunk to high heavens.
Well, it did, I presume, Of course, if you're in it
long enough, you don't notice it. Now we had one
American that died on that after we left Taiwan. He
didn't have dysentery, however, He had intestinal
problems, and I see it in my book that it's listed
as colitis, but what it was, I don't know. He was
ill about three days or two days, and on the third
day he died. He was our chief radioman.
What would happen to the people that had died?
They were wrapped up in burlap and slid down a plank
over the stern--buried at sea.
Was there any sort of a ceremony conducted by the
prisoners, or was this just a case of the Japanese
or somebody throwing them over the side?Marcello:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Stewart, William J., 1920-. Oral History Interview with William J. Stewart, June 11, 1981, book, June 11, 1981; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1944633/m1/84/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.