CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Admission cards39,323
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: 30,005 cards (76.3%) Non-battle injury: 1,959 cards (5.0%) Battle casualty or injury: 7,355 cards (18.7%) Not recorded: 4 cards (0.0%) 39,323 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

3,162 0 January 1942: 0 cards 1942 February 1942: 0 cards March 1942: 1 cards April 1942: 0 cards May 1942: 0 cards June 1942: 0 cards July 1942: 1 cards August 1942: 1 cards September 1942: 0 cards October 1942: 1 cards November 1942: 0 cards December 1942: 0 cards January 1943: 2 cards 1943 February 1943: 3 cards March 1943: 7 cards April 1943: 14 cards May 1943: 3 cards June 1943: 10 cards July 1943: 31 cards August 1943: 28 cards September 1943: 12 cards October 1943: 18 cards November 1943: 38 cards December 1943: 27 cards January 1944: 57 cards 1944 February 1944: 95 cards March 1944: 97 cards April 1944: 66 cards May 1944: 180 cards June 1944: 496 cards July 1944: 780 cards August 1944: 951 cards September 1944: 1,200 cards October 1944: 1,684 cards November 1944: 2,815 cards December 1944: 2,735 cards January 1945: 2,669 cards 1945 February 1945: 2,654 cards March 1945: 2,958 cards April 1945: 3,162 cards May 1945: 3,153 cards June 1945: 2,574 cards July 1945: 2,475 cards August 1945: 2,392 cards September 1945: 2,130 cards October 1945: 1,829 cards November 1945: 1,237 cards December 1945: 727 cards

2 cards have no admission month (some layouts do not record it). 8 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
March 19421
July 19421
August 19421
October 19421
January 19432
February 19433
March 19437
April 194314
May 19433
June 194310
July 194331
August 194328
September 194312
October 194318
November 194338
December 194327
January 194457
February 194495
March 194497
April 194466
May 1944180
June 1944496
July 1944780
August 1944951
September 19441,200
October 19441,684
November 19442,815
December 19442,735
January 19452,669
February 19452,654
March 19452,958
April 19453,162
May 19453,153
June 19452,574
July 19452,475
August 19452,392
September 19452,130
October 19451,829
November 19451,237
December 1945727

Where admitted

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 428 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 79% of these cards · 725 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 24% of these cards · 137 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values