CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Admission cards37,043
Recorded as died546
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: 25,854 cards (69.8%) Non-battle injury: 4,685 cards (12.6%) Battle casualty or injury: 6,498 cards (17.5%) Not recorded: 6 cards (0.0%) 37,043 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

3,389 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: 2 cards October 1942: 0 cards November 1942: 0 cards December 1942: 0 cards January 1943: 1 cards 1943 February 1943: 3 cards March 1943: 0 cards April 1943: 3 cards May 1943: 5 cards June 1943: 7 cards July 1943: 6 cards August 1943: 12 cards September 1943: 10 cards October 1943: 14 cards November 1943: 22 cards December 1943: 30 cards January 1944: 68 cards 1944 February 1944: 76 cards March 1944: 109 cards April 1944: 79 cards May 1944: 160 cards June 1944: 287 cards July 1944: 504 cards August 1944: 655 cards September 1944: 800 cards October 1944: 1,032 cards November 1944: 1,432 cards December 1944: 2,612 cards January 1945: 3,389 cards 1945 February 1945: 2,789 cards March 1945: 3,046 cards April 1945: 3,134 cards May 1945: 2,875 cards June 1945: 2,949 cards July 1945: 2,608 cards August 1945: 2,353 cards September 1945: 1,966 cards October 1945: 1,904 cards November 1945: 1,209 cards December 1945: 881 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
August 19421
September 19422
January 19431
February 19433
April 19433
May 19435
June 19437
July 19436
August 194312
September 194310
October 194314
November 194322
December 194330
January 194468
February 194476
March 1944109
April 194479
May 1944160
June 1944287
July 1944504
August 1944655
September 1944800
October 19441,032
November 19441,432
December 19442,612
January 19453,389
February 19452,789
March 19453,046
April 19453,134
May 19452,875
June 19452,949
July 19452,608
August 19452,353
September 19451,966
October 19451,904
November 19451,209
December 1945881

Where admitted

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 225 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 86% of these cards · 729 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 31% of these cards · 152 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values