CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Admission cards10,177
Recorded as died132
With a place recorded87%

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: 16 cards (0.2%) Non-battle injury: 29 cards (0.3%) Injury (battle status not recorded): 67 cards (0.7%) Battle casualty or injury: 10,048 cards (98.7%) Not recorded: 17 cards (0.2%) 10,177 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

1,946 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: 2 cards August 1942: 0 cards September 1942: 2 cards October 1942: 2 cards November 1942: 2 cards December 1942: 4 cards January 1943: 0 cards 1943 February 1943: 2 cards March 1943: 4 cards April 1943: 0 cards May 1943: 0 cards June 1943: 0 cards July 1943: 1 cards August 1943: 7 cards September 1943: 3 cards October 1943: 7 cards November 1943: 38 cards December 1943: 100 cards January 1944: 109 cards 1944 February 1944: 302 cards March 1944: 149 cards April 1944: 88 cards May 1944: 178 cards June 1944: 197 cards July 1944: 301 cards August 1944: 321 cards September 1944: 442 cards October 1944: 936 cards November 1944: 1,534 cards December 1944: 1,946 cards January 1945: 651 cards 1945 February 1945: 715 cards March 1945: 806 cards April 1945: 706 cards May 1945: 149 cards June 1945: 70 cards July 1945: 12 cards August 1945: 4 cards September 1945: 1 cards October 1945: 0 cards November 1945: 1 cards December 1945: 0 cards

320 cards have no admission month (some layouts do not record it). 65 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 19422
September 19422
October 19422
November 19422
December 19424
February 19432
March 19434
July 19431
August 19437
September 19433
October 19437
November 194338
December 1943100
January 1944109
February 1944302
March 1944149
April 194488
May 1944178
June 1944197
July 1944301
August 1944321
September 1944442
October 1944936
November 19441,534
December 19441,946
January 1945651
February 1945715
March 1945806
April 1945706
May 1945149
June 194570
July 194512
August 19454
September 19451
November 19451

Where admitted

Recorded on 87% of these cards · 52 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 103 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 74 distinct values