CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Admission cards21,253
Recorded as died193
With a place recorded89%

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: 19,573 cards (92.1%) Non-battle injury: 1,549 cards (7.3%) Battle casualty or injury: 115 cards (0.5%) Not recorded: 16 cards (0.1%) 21,253 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

1,241 0 January 1942: 0 cards 1942 February 1942: 0 cards March 1942: 0 cards April 1942: 0 cards May 1942: 1 cards June 1942: 0 cards July 1942: 2 cards August 1942: 2 cards September 1942: 0 cards October 1942: 0 cards November 1942: 4 cards December 1942: 4 cards January 1943: 8 cards 1943 February 1943: 9 cards March 1943: 4 cards April 1943: 8 cards May 1943: 18 cards June 1943: 24 cards July 1943: 37 cards August 1943: 62 cards September 1943: 63 cards October 1943: 124 cards November 1943: 187 cards December 1943: 369 cards January 1944: 1,015 cards 1944 February 1944: 855 cards March 1944: 937 cards April 1944: 779 cards May 1944: 838 cards June 1944: 682 cards July 1944: 729 cards August 1944: 801 cards September 1944: 880 cards October 1944: 1,054 cards November 1944: 1,088 cards December 1944: 1,241 cards January 1945: 964 cards 1945 February 1945: 774 cards March 1945: 748 cards April 1945: 798 cards May 1945: 910 cards June 1945: 785 cards July 1945: 842 cards August 1945: 857 cards September 1945: 834 cards October 1945: 884 cards November 1945: 526 cards December 1945: 476 cards

15 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
May 19421
July 19422
August 19422
November 19424
December 19424
January 19438
February 19439
March 19434
April 19438
May 194318
June 194324
July 194337
August 194362
September 194363
October 1943124
November 1943187
December 1943369
January 19441,015
February 1944855
March 1944937
April 1944779
May 1944838
June 1944682
July 1944729
August 1944801
September 1944880
October 19441,054
November 19441,088
December 19441,241
January 1945964
February 1945774
March 1945748
April 1945798
May 1945910
June 1945785
July 1945842
August 1945857
September 1945834
October 1945884
November 1945526
December 1945476

Where admitted

Recorded on 89% of these cards · 437 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 95% of these cards · 719 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 8% of these cards · 115 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values