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Show 'Portable Camps Follow Nation's Migratory Workers JAy) p4 . Health and living conditions of some 350,000 migrant workers have been improved by govemment-estab-, lished portable camps which follow laborers through California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington and other states. A typical portable camp, above, located now in California, has about 200 tent platforms which are hauled by truck. It also has a first-aid and children's clinic built into a trailer, and a trailer which contains 24 shower baths. There are six of these portable camps in existence. Each camp has a trained nurse and complete sanitary facilities. Camp affairs are handled by a camp council, elected by camp residents. The Farm Security administration also has established 26 permanent camps which take care of 7,000 migrant families. Lower left: A young migrant mother in the door of her "home." Lower right: Cupboard and tent platform, standard equipment of mobile camps. |