Injury Classification

This source is the classification of wounds and injuries list from the front of an ‘Admission and Register book’ for No.3 Casualty Clearing Hospital which reveals the huge range of injuries dealt with by army medical units, (Catalogue ref: MH106/279)

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Wounds and Injuries in action to be entered according to the following classification

  1. Gunshot wounds of the Head-
    1. Contusions and simple flesh wounds of scalp: slight/severe
    2. With fracture of the cranium, without depression
    3. With fracture of the cranium, with depression
    4. Penetrating the cranium
    5. Perforating [the cranium]
  2. Gunshot Wounds of the Face-
    1. With simple flesh contusions and wounds: slight/severe
    2. With fracture
    3. Ditto with lesion of the: (Any important structure or organ to be noted)
    4. With fracture of the lower jaw
  3. Gunshot Wound of the Neck-
    1. Simple flesh contusions and wounds: slight/severe
    2. With injury of the: (Any important structure or organ to be noted)
  4. Gunshot wound of the Chest-
    1. Simple flesh contusions and wounds: slight/severe
    2. With injury of bony or cartilaginous parietes, without lesion of contents
    3. With lesion of contents by contusion, or with non-penetrating wound
    4. Penetrating
    5. Implicating contents
  5. Gunshot Wounds of the Abdomen-
    1. Simple flesh contusions and wounds: slight/severe
    2. Contusion or non-penetrating wound, with lesion of (Any important structure or organ to be noted)
    3. Penetrating or perforating with lesion of (Any important structure or organ to be noted)
  6. Gunshot Wounds of Back and Spine-
    1. Simple flesh contusions and wounds: slight/severe
    2. With fracture of vertebra, without lesion of spinal cord
    3. With fracture and lesion of spinal cord
  7. Gunshot contusions and wounds of the perineum and genital and urinary organs, not being at the same time wounds of the peritoneum. (Any important structure or organ to be noted)
  8. Gunshot Wounds of the Upper Extremities-
    1. Simple flesh contusions and wounds: slight/severe
    2. With contusion or fracture of long bones
    3. Simple fracture of long bones by contusion
      • (Humerous
      • (Radius
      • (Ulna
    4. With compound fracture of
      • (Ulna and Radius
      • (All three bones
      • (Carpus and metacarpus
      • (Phalanges
  9. Gunshot Wounds of the Lower Extremities-
    1. Simple flesh contusions and wounds: slight/severe
    2. With contusion or fracture of long bones
    3. With simple fracture of long bones by contusion
      • (Femur
      • (Tibia only
      • (Fibula only
    4. With compound fracture of (Tibia and Fibula
      • (All three bones
      • (Tarsus and metatarsus
      • (Phalanges
  10. Gunshot Wounds with direct injury of the large arteries, not being at the same time cases of compound fracture.
  11. Gunshot Wounds with direct penetration or perforation of the larger joints. Joints to be named. (With fracture of the bone/Without fracture|)
  12. Gunshot Wounds with direct injury of the large nerves, not being at the same time cases of compound fracture
  13. Sword and Lance Wounds of: (Structure or organ to be noted)
  14. Bayonet, Wounds of: (Ditto)
  15. Miscellaneous Wounds: (Ditto)
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