Psychiatric illness among British Afro-Caribbeans.

reductions in staff funded by the University Grants Committee in several departments, including occupational health. The school recognises, however, the importance of occupational and environmental health as a vital component of public health and that an academic presence in occupational health to serve the large concentration of industry and commerce in south east England is essential. It will, therefore, retain occupational health at a level that will maintain its Master of Science and other courses in occupational medicine and hygiene. The school has survived the financial problems since the change in overseas student policy by the strenuous efforts and success of its departments in staffing their teaching and research from external funding. Only about 30% of academic and research staff in the school are funded from University Grants Committee sources. Occupational health, unfortunately, has been unable to match this, mainly because of lack of funding from the beneficiaries, industry and commerce. We are grateful to many professional colleagues from industry and commerce for their unstinting help in enhancing the quality of our teaching by their practical contributions, but we urgently need more generous help in promoting research if occupational health is to compete successfully with other subjects for University Grants Committee funding. We look forward to the University Grants Committee's review of occupational health in the hope that it may find ways of reversing the decline in academic occupational health and enhancing its prospects and morale, but the main thrust must come from industry and commerce.