From the previous thread:
Last November when CBS News exposed an epidemic of more than 6,200 suicides in 2005 among those who had served in the military, Katz attacked our report.
"Their number is not, in fact, an accurate reflection of the rate," he said last November.
But it turns out they were, as Katz admitted in this e-mail, just three days later.
He wrote: there "are about 18 suicides per day among America's 25 million veterans."
That works out to about 6,570 per year, which Katz admits in the same e-mail, "is supported by the CBS numbers."
18 per day times 365 days per year equals 6,570.
Divide that by 250 and you get 26.
Not sure how many of those would be under 24.
Still, 43/100K is more than twice the rate of the rest of Wales, 19/100K, which is already twice that of the UK as a whole, which would then be less than 10/100K. Not sure why the numbers in Bridgend are higher, but a national average of about 10/100K is considerably less than 26/100K.
