CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Admission cards40,209
Recorded as died0
With a place recorded100%

Counts are admission cards, not individual soldiers or totals. The Army kept battle casualties at 100% and sampled other admissions at 20–80%, and sampling differs by year — compare shares within a year, not raw counts across years.

Type of case

Disease: 24,890 cards (61.9%) Non-battle injury: 5,439 cards (13.5%) Battle casualty or injury: 9,877 cards (24.6%) Not recorded: 3 cards (0.0%) 40,209 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

3,513 0 January 1942: 0 cards 1942 February 1942: 0 cards March 1942: 0 cards April 1942: 0 cards May 1942: 0 cards June 1942: 0 cards July 1942: 0 cards August 1942: 1 cards September 1942: 0 cards October 1942: 0 cards November 1942: 4 cards December 1942: 3 cards January 1943: 0 cards 1943 February 1943: 5 cards March 1943: 3 cards April 1943: 3 cards May 1943: 8 cards June 1943: 13 cards July 1943: 24 cards August 1943: 16 cards September 1943: 52 cards October 1943: 43 cards November 1943: 62 cards December 1943: 27 cards January 1944: 113 cards 1944 February 1944: 168 cards March 1944: 206 cards April 1944: 199 cards May 1944: 364 cards June 1944: 997 cards July 1944: 1,037 cards August 1944: 1,271 cards September 1944: 1,735 cards October 1944: 2,200 cards November 1944: 2,810 cards December 1944: 3,513 cards January 1945: 2,958 cards 1945 February 1945: 2,793 cards March 1945: 3,122 cards April 1945: 3,099 cards May 1945: 3,080 cards June 1945: 2,448 cards July 1945: 2,014 cards August 1945: 1,638 cards September 1945: 1,394 cards October 1945: 1,276 cards November 1945: 836 cards December 1945: 661 cards

3 cards have no admission month (some layouts do not record it). 10 cards record an admission before 1942 (men already in hospital) or a year outside the files, and are not charted.

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MonthCards
August 19421
November 19424
December 19423
February 19435
March 19433
April 19433
May 19438
June 194313
July 194324
August 194316
September 194352
October 194343
November 194362
December 194327
January 1944113
February 1944168
March 1944206
April 1944199
May 1944364
June 1944997
July 19441,037
August 19441,271
September 19441,735
October 19442,200
November 19442,810
December 19443,513
January 19452,958
February 19452,793
March 19453,122
April 19453,099
May 19453,080
June 19452,448
July 19452,014
August 19451,638
September 19451,394
October 19451,276
November 1945836
December 1945661

Where admitted

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 338 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 83% of these cards · 744 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 39% of these cards · 149 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values