Battle Casualties And Medical Statistics

Medical planners must have statistics and factors from previous conflicts to forecast future requirements. Medical statistics for World War II have been recorded for future guidance, but the statistics for the Korean Conflict have not heretofore been placed in a readily available reference book. Therefore, this volume has been prepared to provide the medical planner with essential information related to the statistics, such as the type of operation, lethality of weapons, and location of wounds. Medical planning factors and statistics based on actual experience are an absolute necessity in the preparation and justification of Army Medical Department resources to support contingency plans. Furthermore, data of this nature are one of the key elements utilized in automated force planning systems since they provide the foundation for estimating Army Medical Department units, hospital construction, evacuation requirements, and replacements for a theater of operation. Of major significance is the inclusion in this volume of revised methodology which may be utilized to compute Army Medical Department hospitalization units and related resource requirements. This methodology will provide a common basis for estimating medical workload which may be applied by all planners. Included in the methodology for the first time is an approach for estimating mobile beds required in the field army area. Therefore, with the information contained in this document, a, planner has a method which may be employed to estimate hospitalization workload in the Field Army, Communications Zone, and continental United States, either as an integrated system or as independent areas.

The most detailed, comprehensive study and statistical analysis of British battle and non-battle casualties on all fronts during the Great War - including the North Russian Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919. For the Western Front casualties in the BEF are shown first for the war as a whole, Aug. 1914 to Dec. 1918, and then year by year; other theatres are shown for the whole period of operations. Non-battle casualties due to sickness are shown by diseases so one can read, for example, the number of malaria or dysentery cases in any theatre. Dominion troops are included in the figures. For the record the total casualty figures in all theatres, including Dominion, amounts to 11,096,338, a figure that includes sick, injured, wounded and missing. An outstanding and unique work of reference.