CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Admission cards8,142
Recorded as died373
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: 1,983 cards (24.4%) Non-battle injury: 610 cards (7.5%) Battle casualty or injury: 5,543 cards (68.1%) Not recorded: 6 cards (0.1%) 8,142 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

2,368 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: 0 cards November 1942: 0 cards December 1942: 0 cards January 1943: 0 cards 1943 February 1943: 0 cards March 1943: 0 cards April 1943: 0 cards May 1943: 0 cards June 1943: 0 cards July 1943: 5 cards August 1943: 0 cards September 1943: 2 cards October 1943: 0 cards November 1943: 0 cards December 1943: 1 cards January 1944: 0 cards 1944 February 1944: 3 cards March 1944: 4 cards April 1944: 2 cards May 1944: 8 cards June 1944: 414 cards July 1944: 44 cards August 1944: 39 cards September 1944: 415 cards October 1944: 526 cards November 1944: 177 cards December 1944: 856 cards January 1945: 2,368 cards 1945 February 1945: 700 cards March 1945: 872 cards April 1945: 537 cards May 1945: 229 cards June 1945: 216 cards July 1945: 221 cards August 1945: 149 cards September 1945: 97 cards October 1945: 105 cards November 1945: 88 cards December 1945: 48 cards

1 cards have no admission month (some layouts do not record it). 15 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
July 19435
September 19432
December 19431
February 19443
March 19444
April 19442
May 19448
June 1944414
July 194444
August 194439
September 1944415
October 1944526
November 1944177
December 1944856
January 19452,368
February 1945700
March 1945872
April 1945537
May 1945229
June 1945216
July 1945221
August 1945149
September 194597
October 1945105
November 194588
December 194548

Where admitted

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 69 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 94% of these cards · 315 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 76% of these cards · 98 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values