CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Admission cards218,104
Recorded as died9,872
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: 46,371 cards (21.3%) Non-battle injury: 21,612 cards (9.9%) Battle casualty or injury: 145,160 cards (66.6%) Not recorded: 4,961 cards (2.3%) 218,104 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

65,911 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: 0 cards August 1943: 0 cards September 1943: 1 cards October 1943: 0 cards November 1943: 1 cards December 1943: 1 cards January 1944: 138 cards 1944 February 1944: 333 cards March 1944: 288 cards April 1944: 377 cards May 1944: 461 cards June 1944: 6,916 cards July 1944: 12,671 cards August 1944: 16,346 cards September 1944: 24,953 cards October 1944: 29,164 cards November 1944: 60,532 cards December 1944: 65,911 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: 1 cards December 1945: 0 cards

9 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
September 19431
November 19431
December 19431
January 1944138
February 1944333
March 1944288
April 1944377
May 1944461
June 19446,916
July 194412,671
August 194416,346
September 194424,953
October 194429,164
November 194460,532
December 194465,911
November 19451

Where admitted

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 95% of these cards · 825 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 77% of these cards · 187 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 98% of these cards · 96 distinct values