CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Admission cards10,572
Recorded as died1,498
With a place recorded68%

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: 6,073 cards (57.4%) Non-battle injury: 1,485 cards (14.0%) Battle casualty or injury: 2,997 cards (28.3%) Not recorded: 17 cards (0.2%) 10,572 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

1,382 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: 1 cards April 1943: 0 cards May 1943: 6 cards June 1943: 0 cards July 1943: 15 cards August 1943: 6 cards September 1943: 16 cards October 1943: 41 cards November 1943: 75 cards December 1943: 179 cards January 1944: 510 cards 1944 February 1944: 542 cards March 1944: 618 cards April 1944: 531 cards May 1944: 671 cards June 1944: 1,382 cards July 1944: 701 cards August 1944: 931 cards September 1944: 1,097 cards October 1944: 835 cards November 1944: 1,075 cards December 1944: 822 cards January 1945: 293 cards 1945 February 1945: 117 cards March 1945: 53 cards April 1945: 14 cards May 1945: 4 cards June 1945: 6 cards July 1945: 1 cards August 1945: 2 cards September 1945: 0 cards October 1945: 0 cards November 1945: 0 cards December 1945: 0 cards

14 cards have no admission month (some layouts do not record it). 14 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
March 19431
May 19436
July 194315
August 19436
September 194316
October 194341
November 194375
December 1943179
January 1944510
February 1944542
March 1944618
April 1944531
May 1944671
June 19441,382
July 1944701
August 1944931
September 19441,097
October 1944835
November 19441,075
December 1944822
January 1945293
February 1945117
March 194553
April 194514
May 19454
June 19456
July 19451
August 19452

Where admitted

Recorded on 68% of these cards · 193 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 90% of these cards · 540 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 42% of these cards · 140 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values