Food
The primary lunch option for POWs in Singapore.
What is one biscuit with corned beef?
The type of labor POWs were forced to perform around Singapore.
What is heavy labour?
A disease caused by a thiamine deficiency that affected many POWs.
What is beriberi?
The location where Western civilians were interned after the fall of Singapore.
What is Changi Prison?
Food was served to prisoners that was often moldy and contained sulfur.
What is rice?
A specific construction project that POWs were forced to work on.
What is the Paya Lebar Air Base?
A disease transmitted by mosquitoes that was common among prisoners due to stagnant water.
What is Malaria?
The original capacity for prisoners at Changi Prison.
What is 600?
The reason prisoners continued to eat the provided food despite its poor quality.
What is it was the only ration they had to survive?
Another type of work assigned to prisoners in the camps.
What is cooking and cleaning?
The major symptom characterized by bloody diarrhea.
What is dysentery?
The number of civilian prisoners reported at Changi Prison by 1945.
What is about 4,500?
Tinned vegetables were sometimes spread on this food item.
What are biscuits?
The amount of personal time prisoners had before lights out at night.
What is very little time?
A health issue that was rampant among the POWs, besides malnutrition.
What is malaria, dysentery or beriberi?
The number of women among the civilian prisoners at Changi Prison.
What is 359?
The critical health issue caused by the poor food supply among the prisoners.
What is malnutrition?
Two types of heavy labor tasks POWs were involved in.
What are roadwork and freight-moving?
Major symptom of beriberi.
What is swollen nerves?
The total number of men interned at Changi Prison after the fall of Singapore.
What is 2200?