Table 4. Population Accountability by Specific Type of Final Departure & Leave Status (Including Transfer to Center)
NOTE: Accounts for all evacuees who were ever inducted into or assigned to a WRA center from inception to closing, including transfers to other centers, and accounts for all other persons under general custody of WRA.
WRA Center Custody
Including Transfer to Center 19,534
Excluding Transfer to Center 17,707
Final Departure-Center Residents 19,392
Indefinite Leave 5,684
Relocation Purposes 5,029
Community Invitation (2) 1,226
Education (1) 131
Employment (3) 1,829
Join or Accompany Family (4) 1,639
Mixed Marriage Release (5) 109
Return to Free Area (6) 95
Armed Forces (7) 368
Institution (8) 29
Mental 11
Penal 12
Other 6
Department of Justice Internment (9) 222
Internment 18
Voluntary Internment 204
To Japan (10) 34
Other (11) 2
Terminal Departure 11,581
With Relocation Grant (12) 11,252
Without Relocation Grant (13) 108
Armed Forces (7) 64
Institution (8) 20
Mental 14
Penal 3
Other 3
Department of Justice Internment (9) 136
Internment 86
Voluntary Internment 50
To Japan 0
Other (11) 1
Death (14) 300
Transfer to Center (15)
Central Utah 89
Gila River 101
Granada 70
Heart Mountain 52
Jerome 18
Manzanar 22
Minidoka 11
Rohwer 27
Tule Lake 1,437
-Regular 5
-Segregation 1,432
Final Leave Status -- Assigned Persons (16) 142
Indefinite Leave
Relocation Purposes 65
Education 2
Employment 41
Join or Accompany Family 22
Terminal Departure 77
Without Relocation Grant 76
Armed Forces 1
NOTES:
(1) Refers to evacuee leaving the center to attend a college, university or business or professional school. Doses not include children accompanying parents. Also does not include a number of persons who worked part time to finance their schooling.
(2) Refers to evacuees making arrangements to live in a hotel, hostel, or in a private home approved by a relocation Officer while arranging for employment and to evacuee going to an area pursuant to a notice from a Relocation Officer that the area was approved and there were jobs available.
(3) Refers to an evacuee accepting employment or otherwise engaged in an occupational field.
(4) Refers to evacuees, including children who had not reached their 17th birthday and other dependents, who were accompanying or going to join an evacuees who was relocating or who had already relocated.
(5) Refers to families with one or more non-Japanese members, and to individuals of partial non-Japanese ancestry who were allowed to return to the evacuated area prior to January 3, 1945. (the date the West Coast was re-opened to persons of Japanese descent).
(6) Refers to evacuees who were permitted to return to their houses in the evacuated area of Arizona which had been reclassified as a "free area".
(7) Refers to evacuees notified by local Selective Service boards to report for induction into armed forces; to evacuees commissioned or accepted for enlistment in the Army, Navy, or auxiliary military language schools; to evacuees volunteering to the armed forces; and to the evacuees accepted for enlistment in the WAC, etc.
(8) Refers to evacuees entering mental, other medical and penal institutions.
(9) Refers to evacuees transferred to the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice. Interment refers to aliens interned under the war power of the U.S. Government, deported, or held pending deportation proceedings by the Department of Justice. Voluntary internment refers to family members (Citizens and aliens), who, of their own volition, joined an interned alien at Crystal City Family Internment Camp.
(10) Refers to evacuees leaving for Japan, including repatriates, expatriates, and family members.
(11) Refers to unauthorized departures from WRA centers, including a hospital patient who wandered into the desert, and a fugitive who escaped into the desert, and a mentally deficient young woman who disappeared.
(12) Refers to evacuees leaving the custody of WAR who requested and were granted financial assistance.
(13) Refers to evacuees leaving the custody of WRA who did not receive financial assistance, including evacuees who over-stayed the expiration date of a short-term or seasonal leave and were automatically converted to a terminal departure without grant.
(14) Refers to deaths occurring to evacuees in resident at centers or away from centers on short-term and seasonal leave.
(15) Refers to evacuees transferring to a second center from the original or first center of admission or assignment. In certain instances refers to evacuees transferring to a third or fourth center from the second center before departing for the list time from the custody of WRA. Transfers between any two centers are not necessarily equal (See transfers from centers in Table 3) because each center accounted for the type of original entry and the type of final departure for every individual coming under its custody; for example, the first center will not account for an individual as being a transfer who transfer to a second center, returns to the first center, and finally departs from the custody of WRA from the first center; the second center will, however, account for the individual in question as being a transfer to and from the first center.
(16) Refers to evacuees who were issued final leave status without being admitted to the center of assignment, including 1. seasonal workers released by WCCA from assembly centers and direct evacuation areas who were assigned to WRA centers, and 2. seasonal workers from Jerome and Tule Lake who were assigned to other centers.
Information source: WRA Final Report Series. The Evacuated People, A Quantitative Description, United States Department of the Interior, J.A. Kurg, Secretary, War Relocation Authority, D.S. Myer, Director. 1946.
