CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Admission cards8,680
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

Injury (battle status not recorded): 159 cards (1.8%) Battle casualty or injury: 8,521 cards (98.2%) 8,680 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

855 0 January 1942: 41 cards 1942 February 1942: 11 cards March 1942: 12 cards April 1942: 0 cards May 1942: 0 cards June 1942: 0 cards July 1942: 0 cards August 1942: 0 cards September 1942: 1 cards October 1942: 3 cards November 1942: 47 cards December 1942: 43 cards January 1943: 60 cards 1943 February 1943: 30 cards March 1943: 190 cards April 1943: 275 cards May 1943: 191 cards June 1943: 28 cards July 1943: 365 cards August 1943: 334 cards September 1943: 327 cards October 1943: 472 cards November 1943: 855 cards December 1943: 654 cards January 1944: 8 cards 1944 February 1944: 5 cards March 1944: 5 cards April 1944: 0 cards May 1944: 1 cards June 1944: 5 cards July 1944: 3 cards August 1944: 0 cards September 1944: 0 cards October 1944: 0 cards November 1944: 1 cards December 1944: 2 cards January 1945: 0 cards 1945 February 1945: 0 cards March 1945: 0 cards April 1945: 0 cards May 1945: 0 cards June 1945: 0 cards July 1945: 0 cards August 1945: 0 cards September 1945: 0 cards October 1945: 0 cards November 1945: 0 cards December 1945: 0 cards

4,710 cards have no admission month (some layouts do not record it). 1 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
January 194241
February 194211
March 194212
September 19421
October 19423
November 194247
December 194243
January 194360
February 194330
March 1943190
April 1943275
May 1943191
June 194328
July 1943365
August 1943334
September 1943327
October 1943472
November 1943855
December 1943654
January 19448
February 19445
March 19445
May 19441
June 19445
July 19443
November 19441
December 19442

Where admitted

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 55 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 60 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 99% of these cards · 28 distinct values