CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Admission cards34,931
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: 33,655 cards (96.3%) Non-battle injury: 1,213 cards (3.5%) Battle casualty or injury: 58 cards (0.2%) Not recorded: 5 cards (0.0%) 34,931 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

3,177 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: 0 cards September 1942: 0 cards October 1942: 1 cards November 1942: 0 cards December 1942: 1 cards January 1943: 1 cards 1943 February 1943: 0 cards March 1943: 2 cards April 1943: 0 cards May 1943: 1 cards June 1943: 0 cards July 1943: 0 cards August 1943: 3 cards September 1943: 7 cards October 1943: 7 cards November 1943: 11 cards December 1943: 7 cards January 1944: 13 cards 1944 February 1944: 24 cards March 1944: 24 cards April 1944: 37 cards May 1944: 92 cards June 1944: 155 cards July 1944: 179 cards August 1944: 272 cards September 1944: 437 cards October 1944: 909 cards November 1944: 1,520 cards December 1944: 2,099 cards January 1945: 2,449 cards 1945 February 1945: 2,202 cards March 1945: 2,443 cards April 1945: 2,475 cards May 1945: 3,099 cards June 1945: 3,177 cards July 1945: 3,143 cards August 1945: 3,131 cards September 1945: 2,617 cards October 1945: 2,300 cards November 1945: 1,404 cards December 1945: 682 cards

2 cards have no admission month (some layouts do not record it). 5 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
October 19421
December 19421
January 19431
March 19432
May 19431
August 19433
September 19437
October 19437
November 194311
December 19437
January 194413
February 194424
March 194424
April 194437
May 194492
June 1944155
July 1944179
August 1944272
September 1944437
October 1944909
November 19441,520
December 19442,099
January 19452,449
February 19452,202
March 19452,443
April 19452,475
May 19453,099
June 19453,177
July 19453,143
August 19453,131
September 19452,617
October 19452,300
November 19451,404
December 1945682

Where admitted

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 360 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 75% of these cards · 721 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 4% of these cards · 96 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values