CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Admission cards10,011
Recorded as died105
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: 7,033 cards (70.3%) Non-battle injury: 280 cards (2.8%) Injury (battle status not recorded): 65 cards (0.6%) Not recorded: 2,633 cards (26.3%) 10,011 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

1,434 0 January 1942: 0 cards 1942 February 1942: 0 cards March 1942: 0 cards April 1942: 1 cards May 1942: 0 cards June 1942: 0 cards July 1942: 7 cards August 1942: 9 cards September 1942: 10 cards October 1942: 23 cards November 1942: 134 cards December 1942: 169 cards January 1943: 148 cards 1943 February 1943: 155 cards March 1943: 116 cards April 1943: 132 cards May 1943: 85 cards June 1943: 94 cards July 1943: 235 cards August 1943: 1,077 cards September 1943: 947 cards October 1943: 211 cards November 1943: 453 cards December 1943: 781 cards January 1944: 1,434 cards 1944 February 1944: 736 cards March 1944: 698 cards April 1944: 546 cards May 1944: 470 cards June 1944: 575 cards July 1944: 307 cards August 1944: 33 cards September 1944: 62 cards October 1944: 25 cards November 1944: 6 cards December 1944: 12 cards January 1945: 0 cards 1945 February 1945: 0 cards March 1945: 1 cards April 1945: 0 cards May 1945: 0 cards June 1945: 2 cards July 1945: 85 cards August 1945: 117 cards September 1945: 64 cards October 1945: 38 cards November 1945: 10 cards December 1945: 2 cards

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
April 19421
July 19427
August 19429
September 194210
October 194223
November 1942134
December 1942169
January 1943148
February 1943155
March 1943116
April 1943132
May 194385
June 194394
July 1943235
August 19431,077
September 1943947
October 1943211
November 1943453
December 1943781
January 19441,434
February 1944736
March 1944698
April 1944546
May 1944470
June 1944575
July 1944307
August 194433
September 194462
October 194425
November 19446
December 194412
March 19451
June 19452
July 194585
August 1945117
September 194564
October 194538
November 194510
December 19452

Where admitted

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 80% of these cards · 712 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 8% of these cards · 126 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 73% of these cards · 51 distinct values